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I installed text blob with the line below on my PC:

$ git clone https://github.com/sloria/TextBlob.git

This then happened:

pcarrera@LAP-JYT456465 ~/Python
$ git clone https://github.com/sloria/TextBlob.git
Cloning into 'TextBlob'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 3729 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 3722
Receiving objects: 100% (3729/3729), 7.96 MiB | 10.79 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2054/2054), done.

I wanted to test it with the simple script below:

from textblob import textblob

text = ''' The movie was great. The movie was bad. The movie was really bad 
'''

blob = textblob(text)

for sentence in blob.sentences:
    print(sentence.sentiment.polarity)

But I got this error and I do not know how to move forward:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "textblob_install.py", line 1, in <module>
    from textblob import textblob
ImportError: No module named textblob

Please help (new to Python)

ljeabmreosn
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user10665207
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    You didn't actually install TextBlob, you only downloaded it. It is much easier to use `pip` or `conda` for installation than to install it from the GitHub repo. – iz_ Nov 16 '18 at 23:21

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Use python -m pip install textblob. If you are using conda or virtualenv, you'll want to activate that environment before installing.

git clone <blah> will put files onto your computer, but your python interpreter doesn't know where those files are. The git repo probably has files like a setup.py among others, which can help you install it, but again it needs to still be installed in a useable way in the site-packages directory of your python installation.

Note, do not git clone into site-packages, it will throw errors like "TextBlob is not a python module"

C.Nivs
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It is required to download and import library

!pip install textblob      #for installation

import textblob            #to import
from textblob import TextBlob
vaveila
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Ran into the same issue: TextBlob's documentation seems to indicate that 2 steps are required to install textblob:

pip install -U textblob

and

python -m textblob.download_corpora

After doing that, it worked for me. Documentation found at https://textblob.readthedocs.io/en/dev/

Aaron A.
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You need to install the package according to your python-version, in my case (Python3) I use the incorrect one, because the first time was:

!pip install textblob

And the correct instruction is:

!pip3 install textblob
Mayra Alejandra Sanchez
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The installation of the package not completed. You should install the package properly.

pip install -U textblob

please refer the following link for more information readthedocs

Alan Jose Tom
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