Adding a module Specifically pymorph to Spyder Python IDE

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I have managed to get spyder installed and functioning on my mac but I want to add in a few modules that it doesn t include by default  mahotas and pymorph      I installed both via easy install in the terminal and both seemed to install without any error messages   Running python from a terminal and using import mahotas and import pymorph works just fine without error messages   However  when I run the same lines from a script within spyder I get the following error   Traceback  most recent call last   File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  File   opt local Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 2 7 lib python2 7 site-packages spyderlib widgets externalshell sitecustomize py   line 493  in runfile  execfile filename  namespace  File   Users Name Documents Python dna py   line 11  in  lt module gt   import pymorph ImportError  No module named pymorph   All I m trying to do right now is run the import lines  that s it   I can t seem to find anything about this   I m guessing that spyder uses a separate install of python and that installing modules via the terminal installs them only to the system version of python  How do I add them to spyder   Specs   Mac OSX 10 7 4  Spyder 2 1 9

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Find the location of a module in Terminal:

$ python # open python

import pygame # import a module 

pygame # get the location

Copy-paste the module folder to the 'Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7'
Relaunch Spyder.app

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Using   on the IPython console within spyder allows you to use pip  So  in the example  you could do    1   pip install pymorph   Note  this is also available  though perhaps unreliably  on the Python console for Spyder versions before  2 3 3  Thanks to  CarlosCordoba for this clarification

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One can also follow the below steps    Spyder -  Tools -  Open Command Prompt -  write the command  pip install html5lib

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You can add the Standard Installation location to the PYTHONPATH manager  This way you don t need to add a specific path for each module  Only to update module names    On Unix this location is usually       usr local lib pythonX Y site-packages   On Windows      C  PythonXY Lib site-packages   See the modules install Documentation

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This worked for my purpose done within the Spyder Console  conda install -c anaconda pyserial  this format generally works however pymorph returned thus   conda install -c anaconda pymorph Collecting package metadata  current repodata json      working    done Solving environment     working    failed with initial frozen solve  Retrying with flexible solve  Collecting package metadata  repodata json      working    done Solving environment     working    failed with initial frozen solve  Retrying with flexible solve   Note  you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages  PackagesNotFoundError  The following packages are not available from current channels   pymorph  Current channels   https   conda anaconda org anaconda win-64 https   conda anaconda org anaconda noarch https   repo anaconda com pkgs main win-64 https   repo anaconda com pkgs main noarch https   repo anaconda com pkgs r win-64 https   repo anaconda com pkgs r noarch https   repo anaconda com pkgs msys2 win-64 https   repo anaconda com pkgs msys2 noarch  To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you re looking for  navigate to https   anaconda org  and use the search bar at the top of the page

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You can run  pip install pymorph  But you need to run that command in the anaconda terminal of your environment  For example

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This is assuming a Conda Environment  At a high level  what worked for me was simply configuring my Conda path in Spyder  Here is how I did it   First  determine the path your env exists at   Create your environment In the Anaconda navigator  click to  environments  and then hit the play button on the environment you want to open  Click  Open with Python   you should get an interactive Python shell Type  import numpy   choose any package  Type  numpy  and take a look at the path that looks like this    C   Users My Name   conda  envs  pytorch-three  lib  site-packages  numpy    init   py   The important part is the path all the way down to site-packages  For Spyder to be able to read your packages  do the following within Spyder    Open Spyder from anywhere Click  tools  and  preferences  In your Python Interpreter click  Use the following Python interpreter   From the path above  navigate to your environment and select the Python executable  For me it was here  C   Users My Name   conda  envs  pytorch-three  python exe Finally  add the C   Users  My Name   conda  envs  pytorch-three  libs  site-libs folder to the path  which will exist in your environment   This is easily done through the little Python icon with the tooltip of  add to path    I personally didn t need to restart my IDE  but you may need to

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I faced the same problem when trying to add the seaborn module in Spyder  I installed seaborn into my anaconda directory in ubuntu 14 04  The seaborn module would load if I added the entire anaconda lib python2 7 site-packages  directory which contained the  seaborn  and seaborn-0 5 1-py2 7 egg-info folders  The problem was this anaconda site-packages folder also contained many other modules which Spyder did not like   My solution  I created a new directory in my personal Home folder that I named  spyderlibs  where I placed seaborn and seaborn-0 5 1-py2 7 egg-info folders  Adding my new spyderlib directory in Spyder s PYTHONPATH manager worked

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If you are using Spyder in the Anaconda package     In the IPython Console  use    conda install packageName   This works locally too    conda install  path to package tar   Note  the   is required when using IPython console from within Spyder

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Ok  no one has answered this yet but I managed to figure it out and get it working after also posting on the spyder discussion boards   For any libraries that you want to add that aren t included in the default search path of spyder  you need to go into Tools and add a path to each library via the PYTHONPATH manager   You ll then need to update the module names list from the same menu and restart spyder before the changes take effect

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just use     before the pip command in spyder terminal and it will be fine  Eg     pip install imutils

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