Error : No module named 'psutil'

Question

I've been trying to install Peter Chervenski's MultiNEAT and ran into a problem while running setup.py (python setup.py build_ext):

File "c:/Users/1234/Documents/Alex/multineat/peter-ch-MultiNEAT-f631e2f/setup.py", line 7, in from site-packages import psutil'

And I made sure this module is installed: used pip install a couple of times and it said:

Requirement already satisfied: psutil in c:\users\1234\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages

And I checked this directory myself and found psutil module there (I even deleted it and reinstalled one more time). And after that, I still got the same error with Python not seeing psutil. Is there any way I can solve this problem? (I am using Windows 10, latest version of Python)

No, I am not missing it. I do have an import segment "import psutil". — SeyVetch, May 13 '18 at 16:07

score 19 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 11 '18 at 06:13

Error I got in windows 10 while executing a python script ->

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\YOUR NAME\Desktop\Sample.py", line 2, in import psutil

ImportError: No module named psutil

This is how I resolved the issue ->

C:\python -m pip install --upgrade pip

[Latest pip version got installed successfully]

C:\>python -m pip install psutil

Collecting psutil
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/50/6a/34525bc4e6e153bf6e849a4c4e936742b365f6819c0462cebfa4f082a3c4/psutil-5.4.7-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl (220kB)
    100% |UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU| 225kB 696kB/s
Installing collected packages: psutil
Successfully installed psutil-5.4.7

Finally, Sample.py got executed successfully

score 18 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 20 '19 at 14:09

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This worked for me..

sudo pip install --upgrade psutil

edited Dec 20 '19 at 14:09

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answered Dec 20 '19 at 11:23

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score 12 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Follow these steps on windows:

Open command prompt in administrator mode
Enter Command python -m pip install psutil
Upgrade pip if outdated python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Process Example

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jan 10 '20 at 08:12

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SeyVetch · Answer 4 · 2018-05-13T17:43:41.253

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I solved a problem and if you had a similar problem you should try this:

upgrade pip to the latest version (python -m pip install --upgrade pip)
delete psutil (C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages) if you have it installed already
reupload psutilnow using pip install psutil

. It helped me and if you have a permission error, try opening cmd as administrator.

edited May 13 '18 at 17:43

answered May 13 '18 at 17:36

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Or windows powershell. Worked fine. – Pramod Dissanayake Oct 23 '19 at 05:12
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For those who, like me, didn't know what was meant by "delete psutil", it means literally just "rm -rf" the directory. After that, you're free to install it with pip. – Jonathan E. Landrum Sep 17 '20 at 19:21

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 30 '20 at 22:01

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I had that problem trust me this works 100%. I am using VS Code you just have to install it with pip normally but sometimes it doesn't add it to your working directories (venv\lib\site-packages\) folder your editor is using. So just copy and paste it there from here C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages

edited Dec 30 '20 at 22:01

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answered Dec 30 '20 at 18:15

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 31 '21 at 22:23

I resolved this issue as below: It seems, every time i was trying to upgrade psutil using "pip install psutil" it just showing the requirement is satisfied and showing 5.7.2.

Go to the folder where Python is install and psutil is available e.g. "C:\Python\Lib\site-packages"
find all psutil related filesand rename them to something else e.g. Old__psutil Old_psutil-5.7.2.dist-info
Run "pip install psutil" from bash or command line
It updated for me to 5.8.0

This resolved my issue.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 15 '20 at 06:40

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Inconsistencies can happen if you have multiple versions of windows installed on your system. Check for the default python directory path and make sure 'psutils' is updated in that directory.

answered Nov 15 '20 at 06:40

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 25 '20 at 05:17

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I got the same issue and solved it by specifying the exact (virtual environment / global) pip you are using. In my case (using a virtual environment), after executed pip by using the absolute path, I installed psutil successfully.

answered Dec 25 '20 at 05:17

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 30 '22 at 02:22

These two commands typed in the SSH shell worked for me. The apt install is what was showing me the error mentioned.

sudo apt install pip
python3 -m pip install psutil

Result: python3 -m pip install psutil Collecting psutil Downloading psutil-5.9.1-cp38-cp38-manylinux_2_12_x86_64.manylinux2010_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (284 kB) |████████████████████████████████| 284 kB 2.0 MB/s Installing collected packages: psutil Successfully installed psutil-5.9.1

Hope this helps someone...

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Feb 04 '23 at 02:21

I was having same issue, but not quite exactly the same circumstances. I am writing this for any people that have the same problem as I did.

I was running sudo python script.py (sudo was needed since I wanted to alter cpu frequencies) but Error : No module named 'psutil' appeared. I checked my python version with

python --version

and it was 3.8, but when I checked my version with

sudo python --version

it was running version 2.7. Once I ran

sudo python3 script.py

it ran smoothly. Of course I had already verified I had the newest pip installed + psutil library installed on python3. Basically, make sure you are running the correct python version and you have all libraries/package managers up to date, hope this helped!

score -1 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 05 '20 at 10:05

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This worked for me. I had multiple version of python in my ubuntu system.

$ sudo apt install python3.6-dev

answered Nov 05 '20 at 10:05

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