{"id":129637,"date":"2022-11-10T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.finxter.com\/?p=883281"},"modified":"2022-11-10T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:25:38","slug":"fixed-python-modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-readline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/10\/fixed-python-modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-readline\/","title":{"rendered":"[Fixed] Python ModuleNotFoundError: No Module Named \u2018readline\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Quick Fix:<\/strong> Python raises the ImportError: No module named 'readline'<\/code> when it cannot find the library readline<\/code>. The most frequent source of this error is that you haven’t installed readline<\/code> explicitly with pip install readline<\/code>. Alternatively, you may have different Python versions<\/a> on your computer, and readline<\/code> is not installed for the particular version you’re using.<\/p>\n

pip install readline<\/pre>\n
Library Link<\/strong>: https:\/\/pypi.org\/project\/readline\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\"\u26a1\" Attention<\/strong>: This module is depreciated, you may want to install gnureadline<\/a><\/code> instead:<\/p>\n
pip install gnureadline<\/pre>\n
Problem Formulation<\/h2>\n
You’ve just learned about the awesome capabilities of the readline<\/code> library and you want to try it out, so you start your code with the following statement:<\/p>\n
import readline<\/pre>\n
This is supposed to import the readline library into your (virtual) environment<\/a>. However, it only throws the following ImportError: No module named readline<\/code>:<\/p>\n
>>> import readline\nTraceback (most recent call last): File \"<pyshell#6>\", line 1, in <module> import readline\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'readline'<\/pre>\n
Solution Idea 1: Install Library readline<\/h2>\n
The most likely reason is that Python doesn’t provide readline<\/code> in its standard library. You need to install it first!<\/p>\n
Before being able to import the readline<\/code> module, you need to install it using Python’s package manager pip<\/code>. Make sure pip is installed on your machine.<\/a><\/p>\n
To fix this error, you can run the following command in your Windows shell:<\/p>\n
$ pip install readline<\/pre>\n
This simple command installs readline<\/code> in your virtual environment on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. It assumes that your pip<\/code> version is updated. If it isn’t, use the following two commands in your terminal, command line, or shell (there’s no harm in doing it anyways):<\/p>\n
$ python -m pip install – upgrade pip\n$ pip install readline<\/pre>\n
\"\ud83d\udca1\" Note<\/strong>: Don’t copy and paste the $<\/code> symbol. This is just to illustrate that you run it in your shell\/terminal\/command line. <\/p>\n
Solution Idea 2: Fix the Path<\/h2>\n
The error might persist even after you have installed the readline<\/code> library. This likely happens because pip<\/code> is installed but doesn’t reside in the path you can use. Although pip<\/code> may be installed on your system the script is unable to locate it. Therefore, it is unable to install the library using pip<\/code> in the correct path.<\/p>\n
To fix the problem with the path in Windows follow the steps given next. <\/p>\n
Step 1<\/strong>: Open the folder where you installed Python by opening the command prompt and typing where python<\/code><\/p>\n
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Step 2<\/strong>: Once you have opened the Python<\/code> folder, browse and open the Scripts<\/code> folder and copy its location. Also verify that the folder contains the pip<\/code> file.<\/p>\n
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Step 3<\/strong>: Now open the Scripts<\/code> directory in the command prompt using the cd<\/code> command and the location that you copied previously. <\/p>\n
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Step 4<\/strong>: Now install the library using pip install readline<\/code> command. Here’s an analogous example:<\/p>\n
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After having followed the above steps, execute our script once again. And you should get the desired output.<\/p>\n
Other Solution Ideas<\/h2>\n