PYTHON: How do you run your programs from the terminal?

Question

I wrote this program that controls your computer to collect data from a website in the PyCharm IDE with python 3.7. In my program I imported different libraries like pyautogui.

import pyautogui, time, re, os


def process():
    # The rest of the code

Auto is the project name I have all the files in. I want to run the program from my terminal without having to run it from PyCharm but I'm getting these errors in it:

    laptop:auto user$ python ./test.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "./test.py", line 1, in <module>
            import pyautogui, time, re, os
    ImportError: No module named pyautogui

I downloaded Pyautogui onto my laptop using pip but I don't know how to make it so that the terminal can use the library. Any suggestions on what I should do to solve this problem?

What OS are you using and how did you install pyautogui (`pip install pyautogui` or `pip3 install pyautogui`)? — Gino Mempin, Aug 01 '18 at 04:38
Make sure you're using the correct python version that matches the pyautogui installation. — Gino Mempin, Aug 01 '18 at 04:40
Are you sure that you are using the same python which is installed by PyCharm? Do you have another Python installed separately from PyCharm? — Ather Cheema, Aug 01 '18 at 04:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 01 '18 at 04:38

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I think you having ImportError for import pyautogui try this,

import error for pyautogui

answered Aug 01 '18 at 04:38

Lakshan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '18 at 04:51

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So, I basically was trying to run it in a python 2.X shell. I installed Pyautogui with pip3 install pyautogui inside my project folder and ran the program using the command python3 ./test.py to run it on a python 3.X shell. Everything works perfectly now! Thank y'all for the help :D

answered Aug 01 '18 at 04:51

Salvador Gutierrez

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Just a tip: you can [accept your own answer](https://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer) by clicking the check mark on the left. This is to clearly let future readers, who stumbled upon your answer, know that this is the solution to your problem. :) – Gino Mempin Aug 01 '18 at 23:34
Definitely, I'm just waiting to be able and check my own answer. :D – Salvador Gutierrez Aug 02 '18 at 17:18

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '18 at 05:39

While working in PyCharm IDE, By Default it creates a Virtual Env (venv). If you had installed packages in your PyCharm IDE. It's scope is limited to that Virtual Environment.

Solution:

While running on CMD terminal or any other linux terminal you've to PIP install every package as it'll be then a Global package.

Hope this helps let me know if you have any questions.

PYTHON: How do you run your programs from the terminal?

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