ImportError: No Module named six; six already installed

python macos six
Lucas13 picture Lucas13 · Jun 20, 2017 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I'm running python 3.6 on Mac OS X El Capitan.

I'm trying to run code that uses the six module, but am getting the following error:

ImportError: No module named six.

When I search for six it appears no problem, and I've made sure that the location is included in the sys.path

$ pip show six
Name: six
Version: 1.10.0
Summary: Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/six/
Author: Benjamin Peterson
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /usr/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages

However, when I try to run something basic I encounter an error:

$ python -c "import six; print (six.__version__)"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'six' has no attribute 'version'

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and have tried installing using $ python -m pip install six, but nothing has worked.

If anyone has any ideas or needs more information, I would appreciate it.

Answer

raam86 picture raam86 · Jun 20, 2017

This should work:

pip install --ignore-installed six

more info here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3165

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