I am trying to import the python pptx library in a python programm. I installed it using pip before, which gave me the following output: So this seems to be a success. But as I am trying to import the module using the following code: It says No module named 'pptx'. It must have something to do with Linux since

Issues importing python-pptx on Linux (Ubuntu 17)

I am trying to import the python pptx library in a python programm. I installed it using pip before, which gave me the following output:

Collecting python-pptx
Downloading python-pptx-0.6.6.tar.gz (8.4MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 8.4MB 132kB/s 
Collecting Pillow>=2.6.1 (from python-pptx)
Downloading Pillow-4.2.1-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (5.8MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 5.8MB 193kB/s 
Collecting XlsxWriter>=0.5.7 (from python-pptx)
Downloading XlsxWriter-0.9.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (137kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 143kB 1.2MB/s 
Collecting lxml>=3.1.0 (from python-pptx)
Downloading lxml-3.8.0-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (6.8MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 6.8MB 166kB/s 
Collecting olefile (from Pillow>=2.6.1->python-pptx)
Downloading olefile-0.44.zip (74kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 81kB 1.3MB/s 
Building wheels for collected packages: python-pptx, olefile
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for python-pptx ... done
Stored in directory: /home/clemens/.cache/pip/wheels/27/f8     /dc/181ed5439001413ee0c1c8794a06009c4c0b96f652401e2d20
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for olefile ... done
Stored in directory: /home/clemens/.cache/pip/wheels/20/58 /49/cc7bd00345397059149a10b0259ef38b867935ea2ecff99a9b
Successfully built python-pptx olefile
Installing collected packages: olefile, Pillow, XlsxWriter, lxml, python-pptx
Successfully installed Pillow-4.2.1 XlsxWriter-0.9.8 lxml-3.8.0 olefile-0.44 python-pptx-0.6.6

So this seems to be a success. But as I am trying to import the module using the following code:

try:
    from pptx import Presentation
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

It says No module named 'pptx'. It must have something to do with Linux since the same code works just fine on windows and the module seems to be installed correctly. I am using Python 3.5.3.

Answer

Using pip install, you’ll install it for Python2, not for Python3. To make sure it gets installed for Python3, invoke pip from the interpreter, like this:

python3 -m pip install <package>

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