Pip install colorama ошибка

A common error you may encounter when using Python is modulenotfounderror: no module named ‘colorama’.

This error occurs if you do not install colorama before importing it or install it in the wrong environment.

You can install colorama in Python 3 with python3 -m pip install colorama.

This tutorial goes through the exact steps to troubleshoot this error for the Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.

What is ModuleNotFoundError?

The ModuleNotFoundError occurs when the module you want to use is not present in your Python environment. There are several causes of the modulenotfounderror:

The module’s name is incorrect, in which case you have to check the name of the module you tried to import. Let’s try to import the re module with a double e to see what happens:

import ree

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
1 import ree

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ree'

To solve this error, ensure the module name is correct. Let’s look at the revised code:

import re

print(re.__version__)

2.2.1

You may want to import a local module file, but the module is not in the same directory. Let’s look at an example package with a script and a local module to import. Let’s look at the following steps to perform from your terminal:

mkdir example_package

cd example_package

mkdir folder_1

cd folder_1

vi module.py

Note that we use Vim to create the module.py file in this example. You can use your preferred file editor, such as Emacs or Atom. In module.py, we will import the re module and define a simple function that prints the re version:

import re

def print_re_version():

    print(re.__version__)

Close the module.py, then complete the following commands from your terminal:

cd ../

vi script.py

Inside script.py, we will try to import the module we created.

import module

if __name__ == '__main__':

    mod.print_re_version()

Let’s run python script.py from the terminal to see what happens:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "script.py", line 1, in ≺module≻
    import module
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'module'

To solve this error, we need to point to the correct path to module.py, which is inside folder_1. Let’s look at the revised code:

import folder_1.module as mod

if __name__ == '__main__':

    mod.print_re_version()

When we run python script.py, we will get the following result:

2.2.1

You can also get the error by overriding the official module you want to import by giving your module the same name.

Lastly, you can encounter the modulenotfounderror when you import a module that is not installed in your Python environment.

What is colorama?

colorama is a Python library for producing coloured terminal text and cursor positioning.

The simplest way to install colorama is to use the package manager for Python called pip. The following installation instructions are for the major Python version 3.

Always Use a Virtual Environment to Install Packages

It is always best to install new libraries within a virtual environment. You should not install anything into your global Python interpreter when you develop locally. You may introduce incompatibilities between packages, or you may break your system if you install an incompatible version of a library that your operating system needs. Using a virtual environment helps compartmentalize your projects and their dependencies. Each project will have its environment with everything the code needs to run. Most ImportErrors and ModuleNotFoundErrors occur due to installing a library for one interpreter and trying to use the library with another interpreter. Using a virtual environment avoids this. In Python, you can use virtual environments and conda environments. We will go through how to install colorama with both.

How to Install colorama on Windows Operating System

First, you need to download and install Python on your PC. Ensure you select the install launcher for all users and Add Python to PATH checkboxes. The latter ensures the interpreter is in the execution path. Pip is automatically on Windows for Python versions 2.7.9+ and 3.4+.

You can check your Python version with the following command:

python3 --version

You can install pip on Windows by downloading the installation package, opening the command line and launching the installer. You can install pip via the CMD prompt by running the following command.

python get-pip.py

You may need to run the command prompt as administrator. Check whether the installation has been successful by typing.

pip --version

virtualenv env

You can activate the environment by typing the command:

env\Scripts\activate

You will see “env” in parenthesis next to the command line prompt. You can install colorama within the environment by running the following command from the command prompt.

python3 -m pip install colorama

We use python -m pip to execute pip using the Python interpreter we specify as Python. Doing this helps avoid ImportError when we try to use a package installed with one version of Python interpreter with a different version. You can use the command which python to determine which Python interpreter you are using.

How to Install colorama on Mac Operating System using pip

Open a terminal by pressing command (⌘) + Space Bar to open the Spotlight search. Type in terminal and press enter. To get pip, first ensure you have installed Python3:

python3 --version

Python 3.8.8

Download pip by running the following curl command:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

The curl command allows you to specify a direct download link. Using the -o option sets the name of the downloaded file.

Install pip by running:

python3 get-pip.py

To install colorama, first create the virtual environment:

python3 -m venv env

Then activate the environment using:

source env/bin/activate 

You will see “env” in parenthesis next to the command line prompt. You can install colorama within the environment by running the following command from the command prompt.

python3 -m pip install colorama

How to Install colorama on Linux Operating Systems

All major Linux distributions have Python installed by default. However, you will need to install pip. You can install pip from the terminal, but the installation instructions depend on the Linux distribution you are using. You will need root privileges to install pip. Open a terminal and use the commands relevant to your Linux distribution to install pip.

Installing pip for Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint

sudo apt install python-pip3

Installing pip for CentOS 8 (and newer), Fedora, and Red Hat

sudo dnf install python-pip3

Installing pip for CentOS 6 and 7, and older versions of Red Hat

sudo yum install epel-release

sudo yum install python-pip3

Installing pip for Arch Linux and Manjaro

sudo pacman -S python-pip

Installing pip for OpenSUSE

sudo zypper python3-pip

colorama installation on Linux with Pip

To install colorama, first create the virtual environment:

python3 -m venv env

Then activate the environment using:

source env/bin/activate 

You will see “env” in parenthesis next to the command line prompt. You can install colorama within the environment by running the following command from the command prompt.

Once you have activated your virtual environment, you can install colorama using:

python3 -m pip install colorama

Installing colorama Using Anaconda

Anaconda is a distribution of Python and R for scientific computing and data science. You can install Anaconda by going to the installation instructions. Once you have installed Anaconda, you can create a virtual environment and install colorama.

To create a conda environment you can use the following command:

conda create -n project python=3.8

You can specify a different Python 3 version if you like. Ideally, choose the latest version of Python. Next, you will activate the project container. You will see “project” in parentheses next to the command line prompt.

source activate project

Now you’re ready to install colorama using conda.

Once you have installed Anaconda and created your conda environment, you can install colorama using the following command:

conda install -c anaconda colorama

Check colorama Version

Once you have successfully installed colorama, you can check its version. If you used pip to install colorama, you can use pip show from your terminal.

python3 -m pip show colorama

Name: colorama
Version: 0.4.4
Summary: Cross-platform colored terminal text.
Home-page: https://github.com/tartley/colorama

Second, within your python program, you can import colorama and then reference the __version__ attribute:

import colorama
print(colorama.__version__)

0.4.4

If you used conda to install colorama, you could check the version using the following command:

conda list -f colorama

# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
colorama                  0.4.4              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda

Using colorama Example

from colorama import Fore, Back, Style
print(Fore.RED + 'some red text')
print(Back.GREEN + 'and with a green background')
print(Style.DIM + 'and in dim text')
print(Style.RESET_ALL)
print('back to normal now')

Summary

Congratulations on reading to the end of this tutorial.

Go to the online courses page on Python to learn more about Python for data science and machine learning.

For further reading on missing modules in Python, go to the article:

• How to Solve ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘plotly’.
• How to Solve Python ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘psycopg2’.
• How to Solve Python ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘seaborn’.

Have fun and happy researching!

Also experiencing this.

Here is a log from tox running on the windows-latest environment via github actions:

Collecting colorama<0.5.0,>=0.4.1; sys_platform == "win32"
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cb/fe/bfc4d807aa43a183ab387340f524a0bb086624f2c5935bd08e647b54b269/colorama-0.4.2.tar.gz
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'D:\a\micropy-cli\micropy-cli\.tox\py37\Scripts\python.EXE' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\RUNNER~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-jdcxa2nb\\colorama\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\RUNNER~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-jdcxa2nb\\colorama\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-jdcxa2nb\colorama\pip-egg-info'
         cwd: C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-jdcxa2nb\colorama\
    Complete output (7 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-jdcxa2nb\colorama\setup.py", line 36, in <module>
        long_description=read_file('README.rst'),
      File "C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-jdcxa2nb\colorama\setup.py", line 18, in read_file
        with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), path)) as fp:
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\RUNNER~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-jdcxa2nb\\colorama\\README.rst'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Link to full action

I downloaded the archive from the link, the README.rst is indeed not present.

Quick Fix: Python raises the ImportError: No module named 'colorama' when it cannot find the library colorama. The most frequent source of this error is that you haven’t installed colorama explicitly with pip install colorama. Alternatively, you may have different Python versions on your computer, and colorama is not installed for the particular version you’re using.

Problem Formulation

You’ve just learned about the awesome capabilities of the colorama library and you want to try it out, so you start your code with the following statement:

import colorama

This is supposed to import the Pandas library into your (virtual) environment. However, it only throws the following ImportError: No module named colorama:

>>> import colorama
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
    import colorama
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'colorama'

Note that if you run into the following error AttributeError: Module 'Colorama' Has No Attribute 'Init', check out my detailed blog tutorial here.

Solution Idea 1: Install Library colorama

The most likely reason is that Python doesn’t provide colorama in its standard library. You need to install it first!

Before being able to import the Pandas module, you need to install it using Python’s package manager pip. Make sure pip is installed on your machine.

To fix this error, you can run the following command in your Windows shell:

$ pip install colorama

This simple command installs colorama in your virtual environment on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. It assumes that your pip version is updated. If it isn’t, use the following two commands in your terminal, command line, or shell (there’s no harm in doing it anyways):

$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install pandas

💡 Note: Don’t copy and paste the $ symbol. This is just to illustrate that you run it in your shell/terminal/command line.

Solution Idea 2: Fix the Path

The error might persist even after you have installed the colorama library. This likely happens because pip is installed but doesn’t reside in the path you can use. Although pip may be installed on your system the script is unable to locate it. Therefore, it is unable to install the library using pip in the correct path.

To fix the problem with the path in Windows follow the steps given next.

Step 1: Open the folder where you installed Python by opening the command prompt and typing where python

Step 2: Once you have opened the Python folder, browse and open the Scripts folder and copy its location. Also verify that the folder contains the pip file.

Step 3: Now open the Scripts directory in the command prompt using the cd command and the location that you copied previously.

Step 4: Now install the library using pip install colorama command. Here’s an analogous example:

After having followed the above steps, execute our script once again. And you should get the desired output.

Other Solution Ideas

• The ModuleNotFoundError may appear due to relative imports. You can learn everything about relative imports and how to create your own module in this article.
• You may have mixed up Python and pip versions on your machine. In this case, to install colorama for Python 3, you may want to try python3 -m pip install colorama or even pip3 install colorama instead of pip install colorama
• If you face this issue server-side, you may want to try the command pip install --user colorama
• If you’re using Ubuntu, you may want to try this command: sudo apt install colorama
• You can check out our in-depth guide on installing colorama here.
• You can also check out this article to learn more about possible problems that may lead to an error when importing a library.

Understanding the “import” Statement

import colorama

In Python, the import statement serves two main purposes:

• Search the module by its name, load it, and initialize it.
• Define a name in the local namespace within the scope of the import statement. This local name is then used to reference the accessed module throughout the code.

What’s the Difference Between ImportError and ModuleNotFoundError?

What’s the difference between ImportError and ModuleNotFoundError?

Python defines an error hierarchy, so some error classes inherit from other error classes. In our case, the ModuleNotFoundError is a subclass of the ImportError class.

You can see this in this screenshot from the docs:

You can also check this relationship using the issubclass() built-in function:

>>> issubclass(ModuleNotFoundError, ImportError)
True

Specifically, Python raises the ModuleNotFoundError if the module (e.g., colorama) cannot be found. If it can be found, there may be a problem loading the module or some specific files within the module. In those cases, Python would raise an ImportError.

If an import statement cannot import a module, it raises an ImportError. This may occur because of a faulty installation or an invalid path. In Python 3.6 or newer, this will usually raise a ModuleNotFoundError.

Related Videos

The following video shows you how to resolve the ImportError:

The following video shows you how to import a function from another folder—doing it the wrong way often results in the ModuleNotFoundError:

How to Fix “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘colorama’” in PyCharm

If you create a new Python project in PyCharm and try to import the colorama library, it’ll raise the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/.../main.py", line 1, in <module>
    import colorama
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'colorama'

Process finished with exit code 1

The reason is that each PyCharm project, per default, creates a virtual environment in which you can install custom Python modules. But the virtual environment is initially empty—even if you’ve already installed colorama on your computer!

Here’s a screenshot exemplifying this for the pandas library. It’ll look similar for colorama.

The fix is simple: Use the PyCharm installation tooltips to install Pandas in your virtual environment—two clicks and you’re good to go!

First, right-click on the pandas text in your editor:

Second, click “Show Context Actions” in your context menu. In the new menu that arises, click “Install Pandas” and wait for PyCharm to finish the installation.

The code will run after your installation completes successfully.

As an alternative, you can also open the Terminal tool at the bottom and type:

$ pip install colorama

If this doesn’t work, you may want to set the Python interpreter to another version using the following tutorial: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2016.1/configuring-python-interpreter-for-a-project.html

You can also manually install a new library such as colorama in PyCharm using the following procedure:

• Open File > Settings > Project from the PyCharm menu.
• Select your current project.
• Click the Python Interpreter tab within your project tab.
• Click the small + symbol to add a new library to the project.
• Now type in the library to be installed, in your example Pandas, and click Install Package.
• Wait for the installation to terminate and close all popup windows.

Here’s an analogous example:

Here’s a full guide on how to install a library on PyCharm.

• How to Install a Library on PyCharm