'import futures' does not work even though it is certainly installed

Question

I am trying to work on parallelization in python 2.7, and have certainly installed futures package. When I try import futures, it gives me an error ImportError: No module named futures. I have checked the paths, and it is certainly not the issue of path. Does anyone know how to fix this? I tried looking up online, but there is really limited resources on this package.

Answer 1

The import name for the futures backport is the same as stdlib on Python 3.2+, i.e.

import concurrent.futures