ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pynput' error on PyCharm

Question

import pynput
from pynput.keyboard import Key, Listener
def keyenter(key):
    print("{0} pressed".format(key))
def keyexit(key):
    if key == Key.esc:
       return False
with Listener(keyenter=keyenter, keyexit=keyexit) as listener:
    listener.join()

I keep getting the error -- ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pynput'

I've been at this for a while. Even had a go at online IDE's such as online-python.com, but threw the same error.

There are similar threads on stackoverflow but none seem to have a solid fix/guide to solve this.

Answer 1

Make sure that you did install pynput:

$ python3 -m pip install pynput

And config the Python interpreter in Pycharm correctly, to the global python3 or your specific venv.

Answer 2

A way that worked for me is installing pynput directing from inside PyCharm by using the terminal found on the bottom right.

Inside the PyCharm terminal type:

pip3 install pynput

Note: This will only work if you already have Python3 installed on your system. Hope this helps: (:

Answer 3

I was stuck on a similar issues for almost two days. I was new to using python so I didn't know how to use the IDE well. All that I was missing was checking off "inherit global site-packages".

After that, it worked fine

Answer 4

I got this problem today and want to share my solution.

In my case I'm using virtual environment and I re-used the venv/ directory used in my last project, it was venv39/ and I renamed it to venv/ , and copy/paste to new project, the module pytest was already in it.

Then I did pip install pynput , it looked pretty good when I used vscode or PyCharm to wrote the code, no module missing prompt from the IDE, but, when I ran pytest there's always no module named pynput .

Finally I guess the pytest.exe might be using the old python.exe or something like that, so I did pip uninstall pytest and pip install pytest , then the problem was gone.

Hope it help if you got the same case.