Python is not detecting installed selenium

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I installed selenium and verified installation

User-MacBook-Pro:webscrape user$ sudo pip3 install selenium

The directory '/Users/user/Library/Caches/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. The directory '/Users/user/Library/Caches/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. Requirement already satisfied: selenium in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages (3.14.1) Requirement already satisfied: urllib3 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from selenium) (1.23)

then I tried to run a simple python file and I got this

  User-MacBook-Pro:webscrape user$ python vendorscrape.py

Traceback (most recent call last): File "vendorscrape.py", line 1, in from selenium import webdriver ImportError: No module named selenium

this is the python script vendorscrape.py

 from selenium import webdriver
 from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 import re
 import pandas as pd
 import os



 print("we are on")

Have you tried running your file with python3 as opposed to python? — scales
– scales, Commented Sep 22, 2018 at 0:09
Why are you using sudo? I suggest you do pip install instead. — Code-Apprentice
– Code-Apprentice, Commented Sep 22, 2018 at 0:27

e.iluf · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-22 00:14:05Z

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I used python3 instead of python

answered Sep 22, 2018 at 0:14

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Code-Apprentice · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-22 00:29:42Z

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First, you should install the package as your current user (without sudo):

pip3 install selenium

Second, you should use matching version for pip and python commands. Either use pip with python or pip3 with python3.

answered Sep 22, 2018 at 0:29

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