I can't import pyaudio?

Question

I'm trying to import pyaudio i installed portaudio with the command brew install portaudio and i installed pyaudio with pip now Im trying to import pyaudio and python shows me the error

Could not import the PyAudio C module '_portaudio'

now when i try to follow the instructions of the answer of pyaudio could not import _portaudio

the portaudio tar doesn't have the install file

PORTAUDIO TAR CONTENENTS

What can i do?

Python: 3.4

Operating system: Mac OSX the captain

Answer 1

Follow Step 3 in the link ( pyaudio could not import _portaudio ):

Open Terminal in the directory. Run the following command line one by one.

./configure

make

make install # you may need to be root link

Then, portaudio will be installed. After this, please follow next steps in the link: Get the dependencies for pyaudio. Uninstall pyaudio and reinstall pyaudio.

Answer 2

If you are on Anaconda, try the following command. It worked for me:

conda install -c anaconda portaudio