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I cannot import libraries into python despite repeatedly installing them

I am struggling to install and import python libraries into my programs. originally I was using pydev but I kept getting messages like:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\satur\eclipse-workspace\DMD experimental\Main.py", line 11, in <module> from matplotlib import pyplot as plot ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'matplotlib'
I installed matplotlib using py -m pip install matplotlib which produced a few messages like this.
WARNING: The script f2py.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\satur\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location. WARNING: The scripts fonttools.exe, pyftmerge.exe, pyftsubset.exe and ttx.exe are installed in 'C:\Users\satur\AppData \Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
I was unsure what this meant so I tried running my program again and got the module not found error again.
being unable to resolve the issue I moved over to spyder because it came with many of the libraries I wanted thus avoiding the issue. however, as soon as I tried to import and install libraries not included with spyder I encountered the module not found error and a similar warning about the path. I added the paths mentioned in the warning to the PATH in spyder now when I run my code get this error message:
runfile('C:/Users/satur/.spyder-py3/proper orthogonal decomposition/dynamic mode decomposition experimental driver.py', wdir='C:/Users/satur/.spyder-py3/proper orthogonal decomposition')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\satur\AppData\Local\Programs\Spyder\pkgs\spyder_kernels\py3compat.py", line 356, in compat_exec
exec(code, globals, locals)
File "c:\users\satur\.spyder-py3\proper orthogonal decomposition\dynamic mode decomposition experimental driver.py", line 13, in <module>
import mat73
File "C:\Users\satur\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages\mat73\__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
import h5py
File "C:\Users\satur\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages\h5py\__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
from . import _errors
ImportError: cannot import name '_errors' from partially initialized module 'h5py' (most likely due to a circular import) (C:\Users\satur\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages\h5py\__init__.py)
I did some looking around and found this
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/Working-with-packages-and-environments-in-Spyder#installing-packages-into-the-same-environment-as-spyder
I followed what instructions I understood
import sys; sys.executable
Out[50]: 'C:\\Users\\satur\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Spyder\\Python\\python.exe'
which is different from what I get when I run it in command prompt or in the pydev terminal both of which give me
C:\Users\satur\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe
when i go to C:\Users\satur\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\ I see: 3 versions of idel, 3 versions of pip, and 6 versions of python.
I am deeply confused. I want to install and import libraries into my python programs. I want to be able to run my programs in either (or for that matter any) ide. I seem to be hitting the very similar issues in both. every tutorial I have found online describes the steps to take to do this but not what they are or why I am doing them none of them seem to work and the more times I try to install things the more confused I get.
could someone please explain: how to install and import libraries into a python program. what python is doing when I install things and try to import them. and why both IDEs have similar but different errors.

"No module named 'osmium._osmium'" error when trying to use PyOsmium

I am trying to use PyOsmium but it will not import. python3 setup.py install appears to complete just fine but when I import osmium I get the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/dylan/Downloads/osmium/osmium/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from ._osmium import *
ImportError: No module named 'osmium._osmium'
I have no idea what's causing this and it's my first time manually installing a C++ wrapper. I have the top-level PyOsmium and libosmium directories in the same directory. Is it trying to import the C++ files?
Any help would be much appreciated.

I had the same problem. The solution, as provided by one of the maintainers, is very easy:
Are you in the pyosmium root directory while trying the import? Change the directory to somewhere else and try again. In the root directory the local osmium source directory takes precedence over your freshly installed version.
Change to a different directory from the one you compiled in and it should work; it did for me.

Python module audiolab returns error when function is called

I need to install the Python module audiolab for a research project, and while I have managed to install it and get the module to import in the Python shell, it returns an error in calling one of the most basic functions in the module, wavread().
I am using Python2.7.1 mainly, though I did try backtracking and installing audiolab for Python2.6.6, only to find the same error message after importing and calling the wavread() function.
My operating system is Mac OS X 10.5.8 with an intel processor.
This is generally how it goes:
import numpy
import scipy
import scikits.audiolab as audio
x, fs, nbits = audio.wavread('test.wav')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
x, fs, nbits = audio.wavread('test.wav')
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scikits.audiolab-0.11.0-py2.7-macosx-10.3- fat.egg/scikits/audiolab/pysndfile/matapi.py", line 91, in basic_reader
hdl = Sndfile(filename, 'r')
File "_sndfile.pyx", line 488, in scikits.audiolab.pysndfile._sndfile.Sndfile.__init__ (scikits/audiolab/pysndfile/_sndfile.c:4251)
IOError: error while opening test.wav
->error while opening file test.wav
-> System error : No such file or directory.
I installed the libsndfile library (which I believe audiofile is simply a wrapper around) using pip and that seemed to install fine without error. I then tried to install audiolab from the tar.gz file, using the command python setup.py install in Terminal. This is as directed in the documentation, found here under the header 'build'
The documentation also talks about in some cases needing to make a 'site.cfg' file, which from what I saw after some google searching, only really applies to Windows users, though I'm not certain about this.
Any light you could shed on my problem would be much appreciated!!

The audiolab documentation is somewhat lacking, but wavread() requires an input file. In your code, that input is test.wav. If it doesn't exist in the working directory (usually the location of your python script), you need to provide the full path to the file.

Jython 2.5.1: "ImportError: No Module named os"

I looked through the other posts and bug reports and couldn't figure out what's causing this. I'm using Jython 2.5.1, in a Java project in Eclipse (Ubuntu 8.10). It has been added to the project as a standalone .jar file (I just replaced the old Jython 2.1 jar with this one).
I'm running a script that uses the threading.py class. At some point the statement "import os" is evaluated from linecache.py and I get this error, which I can't seem to figure out how to fix:
'Execution failed. Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "../lib/python/threading.py", line 6, in <module>
import traceback
File "../lib/python/traceback.py", line 3, in <module>
import linecache
File "../lib/python/linecache.py", line 9, in <module>
import os
ImportError: No module named os'

What do you mean with "the jar that comes with the 2.5 download"? Did you extract the contents and use jython.jar or did you run the installer? If you just extracted and didn't run the installer your jython.jar will miss the whole LIB folder.
Can you check if jython.jar contains a LIB folder? (e.g. open jython.jar with 7z or WinZip).
Or try copying the LIB folder in the same folder where jython.jar resides.
Did you try setting these properties. Jython Registry. e.g. via -Dpython.home in the eclipse run configuration.
python.cachedir
python.path
python.home
How is the jar named? If similar to jython-complete.jar try renaming it to jython.jar

Something is wrong at a very deep level, but it's probably easy to fix. You are seeing an error that happens while trying to report some other error.
Probably you have your PYTHONPATH misconfigured. I don't know the details of Jython or Eclipse running Jython, but it looks like you have no standard library available to you.

If you are getting maven, using the dependency jython-standalone instead of jython may help (at least it did for me in a maven project with jython-standalone-2.5.3)

Why my python does not see pysqlite?

I would like to have an interface between Python and sqlite. Both are installed on the machine. I had an old version of Python (2.4.3). So, pysqlite was not included by default. First, I tried to solve this problem by installing pysqlite but I did not succeed in this direction. My second attempt to solve the problem was to install a new version of Python. I do not have the root permissions on the machine. So, I installed it locally. The new version of Python is (2.6.2). As far as I know this version should contain pysqlite by default (and now it is called "sqlite3", not "pysqlite2", as before).
However, if I type:
from sqlite3 import *
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/verrtex/opt/lib/python2.6/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
from dbapi2 import *
File "/home/verrtex/opt/lib/python2.6/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module>
from _sqlite3 import *
ImportError: No module named _sqlite3
It has to be noted, that the above error message is different from those which I get if I type "from blablabla import *":
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ImportError: No module named blablabla
So, python see something related with pysqlite but still has some problems. Can anybody help me, pleas, with that issue?
P.S.
I use CentOS release 5.3 (Final).

On Windows, _sqlite3.pyd resides in C:\Python26\DLLs. On *nix, it should be under a path similar to /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so. Chances are that either you are missing that shared library or your PYTHONPATH is set up incorrectly.
Since you said you did not install as a superuser, it's probably a malformed path; you can manually have Python search a path for _sqlite3.so by doing
import sys
sys.path.append("/path/to/my/libs")
but the preferred approach would probably be to change PYTHONPATH in your .bashrc or other login file.

You have a "slite3.py" (actually its equivalent for a package, sqlite3/__init__.py, so import sqlite3 per se is fine, BUT that module in turns tries to import _sqlite3 and fails, so it's not finding _sqlite3.so. It should be in python2.6/lib-dynload under your local Python root, AND ld should be instructed that it has permission to load dynamic libraries from that directory as well (typically by setting appropriate environment variables e.g. in your .bashrc). Do you have that lib-dynload directory? What's in it? What environment variables do you have which contain the string LD (uppercase), i.e. env|grep LD at your shell prompt?