I did this:
sudo pip install azure azure-storage azure-servicebus azure-mgmt azure-servicemanagement-legacy
from azure import *
Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named azure
from azure.storage import BlobService
Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named azure.storage
4 Answers
Python package installed thru cmd sudo pip install exists at the paths /usr/lib/python2.7, /usr/local/python2.7, etc and their sub-folder dist-packages.
You can code import sys and print sys.path in the Python Interpreter to show the completed path list for current python environment.
Iif you installed successfully some packages like azure & azure-storage, you can find these files relate to the package in the python library paths.
However, you got the error in Import Error: No module named <package-name> when you run the code import <package-name> or from <package-name> import <class or object name>. There are two scenes that would be cause the issue normally.
- Package not installed successfully.
- The library path included package that not exists in Python system environment path
sys.pathin python orPYTHONHOMEin environment variables.
So I think you can try to solve the issue thru three ways below.
- Dynamically add the package path into
sys.paththru the methodsys.path.append('<package path>')in python code. - Check the environment variable
PYTHONHOMEwhether or not set up. If set upPYTHONHOME, python will add package path based onPYTHONHOMEintosys.path. - If your python environment encounter some unknown fault that is unrecoverable, you can try to reinstall Python thru commands
sudo apt-get remove python python-pip,sudo apt-get update,sudo apt-get install python python-pipon Ubuntu. It's a simple way.
BlobService belongs to azure.storage.blob rather than the azure.storage
it should rather be
from azure.storage.blob import BlobService
Link -
If it still doesn't work for you, you might would like to use virtualEnv and do the pip install again while in virtualenv
I had very similar issue. There was a lot of confusion between python2 and python3 package versions as there was no virtual env used and I also had to ungrade pip to 18.
But anyway, this is is how I resolved the part in question.
Locate where the package was installed:
pip show azure
The output will show the location of the package in the Location section:
Name: azure
Version: 4.0.0
Summary: Microsoft Azure Client Libraries for Python
Home-page:
Author: Microsoft Corporation
Author-email:
License: MIT License
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages
Requires: azure-servicefabric, azure-cosmosdb-table, azure-datalake-store, azure-loganalytics, azure-eventgrid, azure-servicemanagement-legacy, azure-servicebus, azure-graphrbac, azure-storage-blob, azure-mgmt, azure-storage-file, azure-batch, azure-applicationinsights, azure-keyvault, azure-storage-queue
Required-by:
If you do:
python -c "import sys;print(sys.path)"
You will see a list of pip package locations:
['/app', '/usr/lib/python36.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.6', '/usr/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
At the begining of my python file I added:
sys.path.insert( 0, '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages' )
This will make sure this package location will be checked in the first place.
UPDATE
Thinking about it in the morning, things opened from a new perspective for me. I saw, that I had #!/usr/bin/python at the beginning of my python file, which says to use the wrong interpreter and look for pip packages in the wrong place.
azure metapackage is deprecated and azure-storage is not being maintained anymore
Please use azure-storage-blob >= 12.0
pip install azure-storage-blob
from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient
PS: I write SDKs for azure
