# No module named 'openai' **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Created:** [August 24, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/no-module-named-openai/8303 "2021-08-24T15:26:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![metaphorz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/metaphorz/32/596_2.png) [@metaphorz](https://community.openai.com/u/metaphorz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/no-module-named-openai/8303/1 "2021-08-24T15:26:57Z")
I thought I’d play around with some python connected to GPT-3. I am getting the following after launching jupyter notebook on my machine, after doing `pip install openai (which reports back that openai is installed correctly)` I reviewed many online resources, but all assume that “import openai” works. Such as the official one from OpenAI: > **[OpenAI API](https://beta.openai.com/docs/developer-quickstart/making-requests)** > > An API for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI `ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last) in 1 import os ----\> 2 import openai 3 4 openai.api\_key = os.getenv("\") 5 … ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘openai’ ` Has anyone seen this behavior? Maybe it is a jupyter thing. I tried a general Google search as well with no luck (although there were some links to Gym). Relaunching jupyter didn’t solve it. ---
**Author:** ![daveshapautomator](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/daveshapautomator/32/8779_2.png) [@daveshapautomator](https://community.openai.com/u/daveshapautomator)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/no-module-named-openai/8303/2 "2021-08-24T15:58:24Z")
Check the virtual environment and also PWD/CWD of the Jupyter instance. > > > Hi, > > I am new to Python and Anaconda. I installed anaconda and install Scipy. Wh…en I try import scipy in the Python in command prompt on the Anaconda prompt, it works fine as below > > \`\`\` > \[Anaconda3\] C:\\Users\\me\>python > Python 3.5.1 |Anaconda 4.0.0 (64-bit)| (default, Feb 16 2016, 09:49:46) \[MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)\] on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > \>\>\> import scipy > \>\>\> > \`\`\` > > But when I use the same in the Jupyter notebook, I am getting - > > \`\`\` > ImportError Traceback (most recent call last) > \ in \() > \----\> 1 import scipy > > ImportError: No module named 'scipy' > \`\`\` > > Please let me know how to solve this issue. > ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/boris/32/701_2.png) [@boris](https://community.openai.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/no-module-named-openai/8303/3 "2021-08-24T16:08:03Z")
Probably your pip points to a different version of python than your notebook launcher ---
**Author:** ![metaphorz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/metaphorz/32/596_2.png) [@metaphorz](https://community.openai.com/u/metaphorz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/no-module-named-openai/8303/4 "2021-08-24T16:28:50Z")
Yes, @daveshapautomator thanks for the links. I need more hacking. My pip and python are in miniconda. Here is the start of the notebook: ![Screen Shot 2021-08-24 at 11.26.21 AM 2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/2X/3/3cfd73456f5e4a0f9d784304339bbc96dafd4d80.png) ---
**Author:** ![metaphorz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/metaphorz/32/596_2.png) [@metaphorz](https://community.openai.com/u/metaphorz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/no-module-named-openai/8303/5 "2021-08-24T16:41:39Z")
Thanks to both of you for suggestions and fixes. The basic solution was to make things consistent, as was suggested. I did 'conda install jupyter" because I was using another version of jupyter (which jupyter). Then I obtained an error in authorization, so I went with the traceback suggestion of ```auto openai.api_key = "key" rather than # openai.api_key = os.getenv("key") ``` Now I am getting useful Json. Now to parse it for something meaningful. ---
**Author:** ![nautilus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/nautilus/32/7253_2.png) [@nautilus](https://community.openai.com/u/nautilus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/no-module-named-openai/8303/6 "2022-12-22T22:27:10Z")
I am running it from the command prompt. Had to set the PATH: export PATH=“/git/openai-quickstart-python:${PATH}” ---
**Author:** ![EricGT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/ericgt/32/20571_2.png) [@EricGT](https://community.openai.com/u/EricGT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/no-module-named-openai/8303/7 "2023-12-12T18:58:34Z")
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