Google-cloud-python: No module named "google" after installing python google-cloud-storage

[jorvis]

I'm following the guide here:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/reference/libraries#

And installed the module like this:

sudo pip3 install google-cloud-storage

It was successful, but then:

$ python3
Python 3.4.2 (default, Jan 10 2015, 20:44:27) 
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from google.cloud import storage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'google'
>>> 

Everything else I do with the 'googleapiclient' module works fine. I'm just trying to create a storage bucket.

[dhermes]

@jorvis This is a fairly common issue. It means either

• Your install failed in a hard-to-detect way
• You have a package in the google namespace which isn't playing nice with others.

Check out #2366 and LMK if that helps?

I am going to pre-emptively close out since this isn't new / isn't an issue with google-cloud-python. However, I'm happy to keep helping as you troubleshoot your install.

UPDATE: This list may help

[jorvis]

Thanks for the help. I went to my /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages directory and deleted protobuf and google*. Then successfully ran "sudo pip3 install google-cloud" I see that it created many directories, including 'google', but I still get the same error when I import.

[dhermes]

You should do two things. First check where the google package actually comes from:

$ python3 -c 'import google; print(google.__file__)'

Second try to install in a virtualenv and see if the issue persists:

$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ venv/bin/pip install google-cloud-storage
(venv) $ venv/bin/python -c 'import google.cloud.storage'
(venv) $ # cheer that it succeeded
(venv) $ # clean-up
(venv) $ deactivate
$ rm -fr venv/

[jorvis]

OK, I got it. The python3 which appears first in my PATH is /opt/Python-3.4.2/bin/python3 but for some reason the libraries got installed in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages. When I used the correct pip3 path they got placed in /opt/Python-3.4.2/lib/python3.4/site-packages instead and all was well.

Thanks again!

[dhermes]

Good to hear