I've installed pip in Debian Linux (I'm using an ARM Chromebook with the Linux beta)
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
which returns:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3-pip is already the newest version (18.1-5).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
However in IDLE if I try to import pyperclip, I get:
>>> import pyperclip
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#23>", line 1, in <module>
import pyperclip
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyperclip'
Any idea what's going wrong here or how I can investigate?
If I run sys.path in my IDLE Python Shell and in the command line I seem to get the same results:
IDLE: ['', '/home/test', '/usr/bin', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
Command Line: test@penguin:~$ python3 Python 3.7.3 (default, Dec 20 2019, 18:57:59) [GCC 8.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import sys sys.path ['', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
Well you have to install pyperclip before you can use it, because it is not part of the python3-pip package. pip is an installer which allows you to install python packages like pyperclip.
sudo pip3 install pyperclip
After the successful installation you can use it with python:
In [1]: import pyperclip
In [2]: pyperclip.__path__
Out[2]: ['/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyperclip']