Need serious help importing selenium to python (over 3 hours wasted already)

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I have spent hours trying to figure out what I am doing wrong, I will list what I have done below.

  1. Installed Python, made sure I clicked the check box to add to SHELL
  2. I checked my to see if python worked in my command line, then checked pip, both work.
  3. I then installed selenium via pip install selenium.
  4. I then go to my IDE (ive tried 3-4 different ide's) and type "import selenium"
  5. I am always getting back a ModuleNotFound error, saying they cannot find selenium.
  6. I go back to command line to make sure I have it installed and its there, ive uninstalled pip, python, selenium and reinstalled them and even restarted computer multiple times.
  7. I dont know what to do, please help im going crazy, i should be using all this time to code.

Mike.Python21

Posted 2019-01-06T15:01:02.980

Reputation: 1

2Are you sure that there is only one version of python installed on your machine ? – CodeIt – 2019-01-06T15:03:00.830

Try installing selenium using this command python -m pip install selenium. To check if selenium is installed properly run python -m pip show selenium. – CodeIt – 2019-01-06T15:09:53.547

When I go to "add or remove programs" and remove python from my machine nothing else shows up. I do have anaconda navigator not sure if that would interrupt any installations. – Mike.Python21 – 2019-01-06T15:11:28.497

I tried python -m pip show selenium and it shows it installed on my system. – Mike.Python21 – 2019-01-06T15:11:46.190

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-h49fiyro\BeautifulSoup\ I got this as an error when trying to install beautifulsoup – Mike.Python21 – 2019-01-06T15:15:39.913

I seem to be getting the error code 1 every time I try to install other packages with pip install ______ – Mike.Python21 – 2019-01-06T15:19:05.547

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'selenium' – Mike.Python21 – 2019-01-06T15:19:31.153

Upgrade pip python -m pip install --upgrade pip – CodeIt – 2019-01-06T15:20:19.013

Requirement already up-to-date: pip in c:\program files\python37\lib\site-packages (18.1) – Mike.Python21 – 2019-01-06T15:21:04.687

Uninstalling anaconda did not work. – Mike.Python21 – 2019-01-06T15:37:52.520

1SOLUTION: I uninstalled python and anaconda, then i JUST installed anaconda and clicked the checkbox to make anaconda PATH. This allowed me to pip install selenium but not BeautifulSoup (im getting a different error for this and will make another post at a later date). Thank you. – Mike.Python21 – 2019-01-06T15:51:30.107

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