Install Azure Python api on linux: importError: No module named storage.blob

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I'm trying to use the Azure Python API. I followed these installation instructions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/python-how-to-install/ using

pip install azure

It had no issues. (I ran it again below just to show the message stating that it is installed. )

I want to upload to Storage as described here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-python-how-to-use-blob-storage/

$ pip install azure
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): azure in ./lib/python2.7/azure-1.0.1-py2.7.egg
...
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): azure-storage==0.20.1 in ./lib/python2.7/azure_storage-0.20.1-py2.7.egg (from azure)
...

$ pip install azure-storage
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): azure-storage in ./lib/python2.7/azure_storage-0.20.1-py2.7.egg
...

$ python2.7
>>> import azure

/home/path/lib/python2.7/azure_nspkg-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/azure/__init__.py:1: UserWarning: Module azure was already imported from 
...
/home/path/lib/python2.7/azure_nspkg-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/azure/__init__.pyc, but /home/path/lib/python2.7/azure_storage-0.20.1-py2.7.egg is being added to sys.path
  __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
...
>>> import azure # a second time just to try it. This time no msg.
>>> from azure.storage.blob import BlobService
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named storage.blob

As the official guide uses azure-storage sdk . If you use azure sdk for python, the import code should be like: from azure.storage import BlobService — Gary Liu
– Gary Liu, Commented Sep 28, 2015 at 1:53

Emily Gerner · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-25 20:40:36Z

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If you only need azure-storage you should be able to install just that package. If you need storage and other aspects of Azure, then you can just install azure and that will grab everything including storage. No need for both installs.

Particularly if you had an older version of Azure installed before there can be issues with how the dependencies link up. Give pip uninstall azure and pip uninstall azure-storage a try and if you're feeling particularly thorough delete anything prefixed with azure in your python lib folder. Then install just what you need per the first paragraph.

answered Sep 25, 2015 at 20:40

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user984003 Over a year ago

This was the first time installing Azure-anything so there can't be be any issues with old versions. I started by first installing azure, and only when I got the error, did I then install storage. I do want it all installed.

user984003 Over a year ago

Hey, that worked! I don't know why it didn't install right the first time. It had added the .egg files, but hadn't dine whatever turns them into the unpackaged library.

Emily Gerner Over a year ago

Glad it worked. :) Not sure either why the first round of install was unsuccessful.

Gerald Manipon Over a year ago

It doesn't work however if I have a package that has install_requires = [ "azure-storage" ] and run "python setup.py develop". I get the same "No module named storage.blob" error. I would have to "pip uninstall" the azure_* packages, "pip install azure", then "python setup.py develop".

Hassan Baig Over a year ago

@EmilyGerner-Microsoft: I have a somewhat similar problem that your solution hasn't alleviated. Since you work on Azure Storage client libraries, can you shed some light on it? See here: stackoverflow.com/questions/34405936/…

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