Watchdog: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'watchdog'

[JeromeHoen]

I just installed the package on an Anaconda virtual env using the command line:
pip install watchdog
and when I try to run:
from watchdog.observers import Observer
I get an import error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'watchdog'

(venv) C:\Users\user>pip list
certifi: 2020.6.20
pathtools: 0.1.2
pip: 20.2.2
setuptools: 49.6.0.post20200814
watchdog: 0.10.3
wheel: 0.35.1
wincertstore: 0.2

Python version: 3.8.5

OS: Windows 10

[BoboTiG]

If you use python -m pip install watchdog, it should work.

[shapedthought]

I'm having the same issue here, installed and uninstalled several times with the same error.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'watchdog.observers'; 'watchdog' is not a package

[rrzaripov]

@JeromeHoen cannot reproduce this on fresh installed Anaconda. Only difference (that no sence) is that I'm using Windows 7:

(base) C:\Users\User>python
Python 3.8.3 (default, Jul  2 2020, 17:30:36) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] :: Anaconda, Inc. on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from watchdog.observers import Observer
>>>

I not think that this issue is related to the watchdog itself. Maybe watchdog package installed in one virtual environment and you trying to import it working in another virtual environment?

[nessalc]

I'm having the issue as well. Similar to @JeromeHoen I'm running Win10, but this time no virtual environment. I can do from watchdog.observers import Observer in IDLE, but when I'm (trying) to run it as part of a script, it fails.

[BoboTiG]

Check that you do not have a file named watchdog.py not a folder name watchdog.

[nessalc]

Thanks, @BoboTiG, that was my issue and I found it just before coming back here to comment on my own silliness 😄