OK so I'm on a windows machine, and wanted to use paho-mqtt package. Downloaded official Python 3 installer msi file, and installed python 3, I don't remember any installation of python before this.
>python --version
Python 3.8.1
Next, Installed paho-mqtt via pip
>pip install paho-mqtt
Collecting paho-mqtt
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/11/.../paho-mqtt-1.5.0.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: paho-mqtt
Running setup.py install for paho-mqtt ... done
Successfully installed paho-mqtt-1.5.0
Tried same command via pip3 and it says the package is already installed.
But when I import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt I get the following error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\mqt\paho.py", line 2, in <module>
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
File "C:\mqt\paho.py", line 2, in <module>
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paho.mqtt'; 'paho' is not a package
I've done every solution provided online but no chance.
Also got the installation directory using https://stackoverflow.com/a/49028561/2543240 the paho directory is there and contains py files.
Is there any debugging command that can help such conditions, to see where is python actually looking for the files it wants to load and can't?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit
Simply import paho returns no error. but import paho.mqtt leads to
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paho.mqtt'; 'paho' is not a package
So installing and uninstalling makes some difference, but just for import paho not import paho.mqtt or import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt. for the later imports the error message is there whether i install or uninstall paho-mqqt.
If you name your source file as paho.py, it could hide the paho package.
So renaming paho.py to paho2.py should fix the problem.