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pythonpyserialraspberry-pi4

unable to import module serial

I'm getting the following for a script on my Raspberry Pi:

    import serial
ImportError: No module named serial

while the module is already installed with pip:

$ pip install pyserial
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied: pyserial in /home/pi/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (3.5)

How can this be and how can I get the module imported to use?

and I get:

$ which python3
/usr/bin/python3
$ which pip
/usr/bin/pip
Solution

  • Actually, your output suggests that you are using this path for installing the packages /home/pi/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (3.5)

    You can check

    pip freeze
pip3 freeze
/home/pi/.local/bin/pip freeze
/home/pi/.local/bin/pip3 freeze

    to find which python distribution contains your installed package

    Edit: Seems you have resolved it by using the right interpreter which is python3