How to import Python packages (namely the "requests" package?)

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I am new to IDX and have been fiddling with it for the past few hours so please forgive both my naivety and my general frustration as I have so far found IDX very annoying to work with.

I have created a blank workspace and have (after some trial and error) installed Python3. I am trying to import the “requests” Python package like so:
import requests

but in doing so I received the following error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

I have tried adding the “requests” package to my nix environment file and rebuilding the workspace but I am still getting the error:

packages = [
    # pkgs.go
    pkgs.python311
    pkgs.python311Packages.pip
    pkgs.python311Packages.requests
    # pkgs.nodejs_20
    # pkgs.nodePackages.nodemon
    # pkgs.python
  ];

How the heck does one import Python packages in IDX?

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I would suggest creating a virtual environment and doing a pip install request…

This should help you

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Thank you for the advice. So I did that - now it’s telling me that there is no “urllib3” module but when I try to install it it already exists:

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Is you python file inside the .idx folder?? Looking at the path it seems to be that way…

Can you try placing the file outside the .IDX folder and trying again

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I did have the scrape.py file in the .idx folder. I didn’t think much of it until you brought it up. That said I am still having the issue. I think that I do not fully understand pathing in Linux/IDX

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Edit: Disabling the requests package in the dev.nix file and manually uninstalling and reinstalling requests and urllib3 in the venv seems to have fixed the issue… this is very confusing for a newbie like myself but I am assuming there is some issue with how/where the nix package installed the dependences that manually installing in the venv resolved? :melting_face: