ImportError: No module named boto3

Question

Installed the boto3 and upgraded it to the latest release. I tried the easy install pip for installation. I have multiple versions of python installed so I even tried installing in virtualenv venv. But I get the same error: "No module named boto3".

pip install boto3

python
Python 2.7.11 (default, Mar 10 2016, 14:12:44)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import boto3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named boto3
>>>

I tried with / without sudo:

sudo pip install boto3

I`m trying to install AWS SDK on Raspberry Pi.

pip freeze

shows "boto3==1.3.0" installed.

sudo pip install boto3

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): boto3 in    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): botocore>=1.4.1, <1.5.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): jmespath>=0.7.1,<1.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): futures>=2.2.0,<4.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): python-dateutil>=2.1,<3.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from botocore>=1.4.1,<1.5.0->boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): docutils>=0.10 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from botocore>=1.4.1,<1.5.0->boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six>=1.5 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from python-dateutil>=2.1,<3.0.0->botocore>=1.4.1,<1.5.0->boto3)
Cleaning up...

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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sudo pip install boto3 installs it to your global pip. Explained here: Unable to install boto3

You can activate your venv, install boto3 without sudo and start python:

$ source path/to/your/ENV/bin/activate
$ pip install boto3
$ python

Or if you prefer to use your global installation do:

$ deactivate
$ pip install boto3
$ python

Check out the virtualenv user guide: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide.html

Also virtualenvwrapper makes it really easy to manage: https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

Community

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answered Apr 04 '16 at 00:33

fips

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If this isn't working for you, refer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20952797/pip-installing-in-global-site-packages-instead-of-virtualenv – dillon.harless Oct 02 '19 at 11:42

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '17 at 11:07

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Globally for my mac, this worked

sudo pip install --ignore-installed six boto3

answered Mar 29 '17 at 11:07

Sameer Kumar

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@BaseDesire 'six' happens to be a dependency for the boto3 package More: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3165 – Sameer Kumar Dec 22 '20 at 07:42

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 23 '18 at 10:24

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Try to activate your virtual environment

source bin/activate

Then try connecting installing boto3

pip install boto3

answered Jan 23 '18 at 10:24

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 12 '17 at 10:44

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I have faced the same issue and also not using virtual environment. easy_install is working for me. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and my python version is 2.7

easy_install boto3

answered May 12 '17 at 10:44

sib10

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 27 '22 at 19:07

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Sometimes botocore is also needed, so install boto3 and botocore.

answered Mar 27 '22 at 19:07

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