Почему pycharm не видит модули

PyCharm doesn't recognize installed module

I’m having trouble with using ‘requests’ module on my Mac. I use python34 and I installed ‘requests’ module via pip. I can verify this via running installation again and it’ll show me that module is already installed.

Although I can import ‘requests’ module via interactive Python interpreter, trying to execute ‘import requests’ in PyCharm yields error ‘No module named requests’. I checked my PyCharm Python interpreter settings and (I believe) it’s set to same python34 as used in my environment. However, I can’t see ‘requests’ module listed in PyCharm either.

It’s obvious that I’m missing something here. Can you guys advise where should I look or what should I fix in order to get this module working? I was living under impression that when I install module via pip in my environment, PyCharm will detect these changes. However, it seems something is broken on my side .

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In my case, using a pre-existing virtualenv did not work in the editor — all modules were marked as unresolved reference (running naturally works, as this is outside of the editor’s config, just running an external process (not so easy for debugging)).
Turns out PyCharm did not add the site-packages directory. the fix is to manually add it.

On Pycharm professional 2022.3

Open File -> Settings -> Python Interpreter, open the drop-down and pick "Show All. " (to edit the config) (1), right click your interpreter (2), click "Show Interpreter Paths" (3).

In that screen, manually add the "site-packages" directory of the virtual environment [looks like . /venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (4) (I’ve added the "Lib" also, for a good measure); once done and saved, they will turn up in the interpreter paths.

The other thing that won’t hurt to do is select "Associate this virtual environment with the current project", in the interpreter’s edit box.

If you are using PyCharms CE (Community Edition), then click on:

File->Default Settings->Project Interpreter

See the + sign at the bottom, click on it. It will open another dialog with a host of modules available. Select your package (e.g. requests) and PyCharm will do the rest.

This issue arises when the package you’re using was installed outside of the environment (Anaconda or virtualenv, for example). In order to have PyCharm recognize packages installed outside of your particular environment, execute the following steps:

Preferences -> Project -> Project Interpreter -> 3 dots -> Show All -> Select relevant interpreter -> click on tree icon Show paths for the selected interpreter

Now check what paths are available and add the path that points to the package installation directory outside of your environment to the interpreter paths.

To find a package location use:

Add the path specified under Location to the interpreter paths, here

Then, let indexing finish and perhaps additionally reopen your project.

Open python console of your pyCharm. Click on Rerun. It will say something like following on the very first line

in this scenario pyCharm is using following interpretor

Now fire up console and run following command

This should install your package 🙂

Pycharm is unable to recognize installed local modules, since python interpreter selected is wrong. It should be the one, where your pip packages are installed i.e. virtual environment.

I had installed packages via pip in Windows. In Pycharm, they were neither detected nor any other Python interpreter was being shown (only python 3.6 is installed on my system).

I restarted the IDE. Now I was able to see python interpreter created in my virtual environment. Select that python interpreter and all your packages will be shown and detected. Enjoy!

Using dual python 2.7 and 3.4 with 2.7 as default, I’ve always used pip3 to install modules for the 3.4 interpreter, and pip to install modules for the 2.7 interpreter.

pip3 install requests

This is because you have not selected two options while creating your project:- ** inherit global site packages ** make available to all projects Now you need to create a new project and don’t forget to tick these two options while selecting project interpreter.

The solution is easy (PyCharm 2021.2.3 Community Edition). I’m on Windows but the user interface should be the same. In the project tree, open External libraries > Python interpreter > venv > pyvenv.cfg. Then change:

Before going further, I want to point out how to configure a Python interpreter in PyCharm:
[SO]: How to install Python using the "embeddable zip file" (@CristiFati’s answer). Although the question is for Win, and has some particularities, configuring PyCharm is generic enough and should apply to any situation (with minor changes).

There are multiple possible reasons for this behavior.

1. Python instance mismatch

Happens when there are multiple Python instances (installed, VEnvs, Conda, custom built, . ) on a machine. Users think they’re using one particular instance (with a set of properties (installed packages)), but in fact they are using another (with different properties), hence the confusion. It’s harder to figure out things when the 2 instances have the same version (and somehow similar locations)

Happens mostly due to environmental configuration (whichever path comes 1 st in $ , aliases (on Nix), . )