ImportError: No module named PBKDF2

Question

Trying to implement password encryption and decryption in python on google app engine. Made some research and from this thread i learned of PBKDF2 . i have installed the module using pip install pbkdf2 and have downloaded the entire package as illustrated here and here . Still when importing the module as from PBKDF2 import PBKDF2 , i still get ImportError: No module named PBKDF2 is there anything i am missing and how do i fix this? Thanks.

Answer 1

The PBKDF2 documentation seems to be wrong, you need to refer to the module in lowercase:

from pbkdf2 import PBKDF2

A more general tip, if you're working with pip it's useful to remember this command:

pip show -f <package>

This will list all the files installed by a package and their base location. It's specially useful when dealing with packages that include command line tools or compiled extensions.