ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyperclip'

Question

Similar issues like this have been posted on StackOverflow but I did not find adequate answers to resolve this issue.

I'm running Python 3.6.3 on a Windows 7 machine. From IDLE I type the following import stmt and get the subsequent error:

>>> import pyperclip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module>
    import pyperclip
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyperclip'

I tried hitting Win-R (to pup up the RUN window) and typed the following:

pip3 install pyperclip
pip install pyperclip

But it gives me an error saying "Could not fetch the URL: https://pypi.python.org/simple/pyperclip/ Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pyperclip... No Matching distribution found"

If I visit the URL mentioned (https://pypi.python.org/simple/pyperclip/) I see a bunch of pyperclip ZIP files all dif versions. But if I select a version I'm not sure where to place them/extract them or if extracting them is even the right thing to do.

Any advice?

Answer 1

You must navigate to your default install location for 3.6. For IDLE 32 bits it's:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts\

for IDLE 64 bits use:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts\

If you navigate to that directory in the command prompt (use cd command), then the command

pip install pyperclip

should work.