I pip installed Prefect but it says "ModuleNotFoundError": 'No module named 'prefect'

Question

I'm not sure what the issue is but

• I already pip installed prefect and confirmed it's installed: Prefect 2.0
• Using VsCode
• Python 3.10.6

check image below for error and code posted for easy copy pasta

from prefect import flow, task
import httpx

@task(retries=3)
def get_stars(repo):
    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{repo}"
    count = httpx.get(url).json()["stargazers_count"]
    print(f"{repo} has {count} stars!")

@flow
def github_stars(repos):
    for repo in repos:
        get_stars(repo)

# call the flow!
github_stars(["PrefectHQ/Prefect", "PrefectHQ/prefect-aws",  "PrefectHQ/prefect-dbt"])

Answer 1

I can see that you have not activated your virtualenv that might be the issue, you need to first install virtualenv.

Using this you can install virtualenv in your system:

pip install virtualenv

then you have to create a virtual environment, you can do that by following command.

python -m virtualenv myEnv # ---> whatever name you want here

and then you have to activate the environment by following command:

myEnv\Scripts\activate

and to deactivate, simply use:

deactivate

Answer 2

did you try restarting vscode sometimes it takes a restart?

Answer 3

Do you happen to use venv for virtual environment management? We've seen some users struggling to set it up with venv. Could you try installing with Conda and report back?