ImportError: No module named request

python speech-recognition
Mulagala picture Mulagala · Jul 9, 2014 · Viewed 134.4k times · Source

I am trying to install python SpeechRecognition on my machine.When i am trying to install the package as pip install SpeechRecognition. I am getting the following error.

import json, urllib.request

ImportError: No module named request

And then i referred and installed requests as pip install requests i am i am getting Requirement already satisfied.But still i am unable to install SpeechRecognition.Please let me know what mistake i am doing.Thanks in advance

Answer

Martijn Pieters picture Martijn Pieters · Jul 9, 2014

The SpeechRecognition library requires Python 3.3 or up:

Requirements

[...]

The first software requirement is Python 3.3 or better. This is required to use the library.

and from the Trove classifiers:

Programming Language :: Python
Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4

The urllib.request module is part of the Python 3 standard library; in Python 2 you'd use urllib2 here.

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