Cannot import Azure Storage Blob package even though it is installed

Question

I want to write a script to upload files to Azure Blob Storage. I installed the Azure Storage Blob package following this documentation and then tried to run from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient I got the error:

No module named 'azure.storage'; 'azure' is not a package.

When I run pip show azure-storage-blob the package is in the expected place that is included in PATH.

The strange thing is that I can run import azure just fine but when I run pip show azure I get

WARNING: Package(s) not found: azure

This doesnt work either: from azure import BlobServiceClient .

I am using Anaconda / Windows and I tried this with Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 with the same results.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

This issue was solved by Eric Truett's comment, add it as the answer to close the question:

1. Try launching the anaconda prompt,

2. then type ipython,

3. then, in ipython, try from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient .

4. If you get an ImportError, then try !pip install azure-storage-blob and then try the import again.

I tried from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient and got no error. So I went to Spyder and just ran the import there. It worked. I did not change anything else but it is working now.