ImportError No module named google protobuf

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I am following this guide  https   developers google com protocol-buffers docs pythontutorial  and using the exact sample of addressbook proto   Post the content of compiler generated addressbook pb2 py file as well  When I run the following simple program  there is error saying  cannot find google protobuf  any ideas how to resolve this issue  Thanks   BTW  using Python 2 7 on Mac OSX   from addressbook pb2 import Person  p   Person   p email    abc   print p email   Here is the automated generated file addressbook pb2 py     Generated by the protocol buffer compiler   DO NOT EDIT    source  addressbook proto  import sys  b sys version info 0  lt 3 and  lambda x x  or  lambda x x encode  latin1    from google protobuf import descriptor as  descriptor from google protobuf import message as  message from google protobuf import reflection as  reflection from google protobuf import symbol database as  symbol database from google protobuf import descriptor pb2     protoc insertion point imports    sym db    symbol database Default       DESCRIPTOR    descriptor FileDescriptor    name  addressbook proto     package  tutorial     syntax  proto2     serialized pb  b   n x11 x61 x64 x64ressbook proto x12 x08tutorial   xda x01 n x06Person x12 x0c n x04name x18 x01  x02  t x12 n n x02id x18 x02  x02  x05 x12 r n x05 x65mail x18 x03  x01  t x12  n x05phone x18 x04  x03  x0b x32 x1c tutorial Person PhoneNumber x1aM n x0bPhoneNumber x12 x0e n x06number x18 x01  x02  t x12  n x04type x18 x02  x01  x0e x32 x1a tutorial Person PhoneType  x04HOME    n tPhoneType x12 n n x06MOBILE x10 x00 x12 x08 n x04HOME x10 x01 x12 x08 n x04WORK x10 x02    n x0b x41 x64 x64ressBook x12  n x06person x18 x01  x03  x0b x32 x10 tutorial Person      sym db RegisterFileDescriptor DESCRIPTOR      PERSON PHONETYPE    descriptor EnumDescriptor    name  PhoneType     full name  tutorial Person PhoneType     filename None    file DESCRIPTOR    values        descriptor EnumValueDescriptor        name  MOBILE   index 0  number 0        options None        type None        descriptor EnumValueDescriptor        name  HOME   index 1  number 1        options None        type None        descriptor EnumValueDescriptor        name  WORK   index 2  number 2        options None        type None          containing type None    options None    serialized start 207    serialized end 250     sym db RegisterEnumDescriptor  PERSON PHONETYPE     PERSON PHONENUMBER    descriptor Descriptor    name  PhoneNumber     full name  tutorial Person PhoneNumber     filename None    file DESCRIPTOR    containing type None    fields        descriptor FieldDescriptor        name  number   full name  tutorial Person PhoneNumber number   index 0        number 1  type 9  cpp type 9  label 2        has default value False  default value  b     decode  utf-8          message type None  enum type None  containing type None        is extension False  extension scope None        options None        descriptor FieldDescriptor        name  type   full name  tutorial Person PhoneNumber type   index 1        number 2  type 14  cpp type 8  label 1        has default value True  default value 1        message type None  enum type None  containing type None        is extension False  extension scope None        options None          extensions          nested types       enum types          options None    is extendable False    syntax  proto2     extension ranges       oneofs          serialized start 128    serialized end 205      PERSON    descriptor Descriptor    name  Person     full name  tutorial Person     filename None    file DESCRIPTOR    containing type None    fields        descriptor FieldDescriptor        name  name   full name  tutorial Person name   index 0        number 1  type 9  cpp type 9  label 2        has default value False  default value  b     decode  utf-8          message type None  enum type None  containing type None        is extension False  extension scope None        options None        descriptor FieldDescriptor        name  id   full name  tutorial Person id   index 1        number 2  type 5  cpp type 1  label 2        has default value False  default value 0        message type None  enum type None  containing type None        is extension False  extension scope None        options None        descriptor FieldDescriptor        name  email   full name  tutorial Person email   index 2        number 3  type 9  cpp type 9  label 1        has default value False  default value  b     decode  utf-8          message type None  enum type None  containing type None        is extension False  extension scope None        options None        descriptor FieldDescriptor        name  phone   full name  tutorial Person phone   index 3        number 4  type 11  cpp type 10  label 3        has default value False  default value           message type None  enum type None  containing type None        is extension False  extension scope None        options None          extensions          nested types   PERSON PHONENUMBER       enum types        PERSON PHONETYPE         options None    is extendable False    syntax  proto2     extension ranges       oneofs          serialized start 32    serialized end 250       ADDRESSBOOK    descriptor Descriptor    name  AddressBook     full name  tutorial AddressBook     filename None    file DESCRIPTOR    containing type None    fields        descriptor FieldDescriptor        name  person   full name  tutorial AddressBook person   index 0        number 1  type 11  cpp type 10  label 3        has default value False  default value           message type None  enum type None  containing type None        is extension False  extension scope None        options None          extensions          nested types       enum types          options None    is extendable False    syntax  proto2     extension ranges       oneofs          serialized start 252    serialized end 299      PERSON PHONENUMBER fields by name  type   enum type    PERSON PHONETYPE  PERSON PHONENUMBER containing type    PERSON  PERSON fields by name  phone   message type    PERSON PHONENUMBER  PERSON PHONETYPE containing type    PERSON  ADDRESSBOOK fields by name  person   message type    PERSON DESCRIPTOR message types by name  Person      PERSON DESCRIPTOR message types by name  AddressBook      ADDRESSBOOK  Person    reflection GeneratedProtocolMessageType  Person     message Message    dict     PhoneNumber    reflection GeneratedProtocolMessageType  PhoneNumber     message Message    dict      DESCRIPTOR    PERSON PHONENUMBER        module      addressbook pb2          protoc insertion point class scope tutorial Person PhoneNumber               DESCRIPTOR    PERSON      module      addressbook pb2        protoc insertion point class scope tutorial Person        sym db RegisterMessage Person   sym db RegisterMessage Person PhoneNumber   AddressBook    reflection GeneratedProtocolMessageType  AddressBook     message Message    dict    DESCRIPTOR    ADDRESSBOOK      module      addressbook pb2        protoc insertion point class scope tutorial AddressBook        sym db RegisterMessage AddressBook        protoc insertion point module scope    Edit 1   Tried pip install protobuf  met with the following error   Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   protobuf in  Users foo miniconda2 lib python2 7 site-packages Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   six gt  1 9 in  Users foo miniconda2 lib python2 7 site-packages six-1 10 0-py2 7 egg  from protobuf  Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   setuptools in  Users foo miniconda2 lib python2 7 site-packages  from protobuf    Here is the output of python version   python -V Python 2 7 11    Continuum Analytics  Inc      Edit 2     Post exact error message   Traceback  most recent call last     File   Applications PyCharm CE app Contents helpers pydev pydevd py   line 1531  in  lt module gt      globals   debugger run setup  file    None  None  is module    File   Applications PyCharm CE app Contents helpers pydev pydevd py   line 938  in run     pydev imports execfile file  globals  locals     execute the script   File   Users foo personal featureExtraction protobuf test py   line 1  in  lt module gt      from addressbook pb2 import Person   File   Applications PyCharm CE app Contents helpers pydev  pydev bundle pydev monkey qt py   line 71  in patched import     return original import name   args    kwargs    File   Users foo personal featureExtraction addressbook pb2 py   line 6  in  lt module gt      from google protobuf import descriptor as  descriptor   File   Applications PyCharm CE app Contents helpers pydev  pydev bundle pydev monkey qt py   line 71  in patched import     return original import name   args    kwargs  ImportError  No module named google protobuf   Edit 3   error message when import google     Edit 4    Output of which pip   which pip  Users foo miniconda2 bin pip   Output of sys executable    Users foo anaconda bin python  Edit 5   foo-mn1 featureExtraction foo  sudo  Users foo miniconda2 bin pip install protobuf Password  The directory   Users foo Library Caches pip http  or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled  Please check the permissions and owner of that directory  If executing pip with sudo  you may want sudo s -H flag  The directory   Users foo Library Caches pip  or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled  check the permissions and owner of that directory  If executing pip with sudo  you may want sudo s -H flag  Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   protobuf in  Users foo miniconda2 lib python2 7 site-packages Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   six gt  1 9 in  Users foo miniconda2 lib python2 7 site-packages six-1 10 0-py2 7 egg  from protobuf  Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   setuptools in  Users foo miniconda2 lib python2 7 site-packages  from protobuf  foo-mn1 featureExtraction foo  sudo  Users foo miniconda2 bin pip install google The directory   Users foo Library Caches pip http  or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled  Please check the permissions and owner of that directory  If executing pip with sudo  you may want sudo s -H flag  The directory   Users foo Library Caches pip  or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled  check the permissions and owner of that directory  If executing pip with sudo  you may want sudo s -H flag  Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   google in  Users foo miniconda2 lib python2 7 site-packages Requirement already satisfied  use --upgrade to upgrade   beautifulsoup4 in  Users foo miniconda2 lib python2 7 site-packages  from google

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I also have this issue and have been looking into it for a long time. It seems that there is no such problem on python 3+. The problem is actually on google.protobuf

Solution 1:

pip uninstall protobuf
pip uninstall google
pip install google
pip install protobuf
pip install google-cloud

Solution 2:

create an __init__.py in "google" folder.

cd /path/to/your/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google
touch __init__.py

Hopefully it will work.

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On Mac OS - Installing tensorflow 1 3 - it will automatically remove other protobuf installs and install protobuf 3 4  However  this does not work and neither does installing or downgrading to any other protobuf version   However I found a solution  Not sure why this works - but on Mac OS this solved it   pip install google

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I had this issue when using the Python wrapper for DGraph DB  which was somehow fixed by this commit  perhaps of use to someone

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To find where the name google clashes      try this  python3  then  gt  gt  gt  help  google       I got info about google-auth  NAME     google  PACKAGE CONTENTS     auth  package      oauth2  package   Also then try pip show google-auth  Then sudo pip3 uninstall google-auth      and re-try  gt  gt  gt  help  google   I then see protobuf  NAME     google  PACKAGE CONTENTS     protobuf  package

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If you are a windows user and try to start py-script in cmd - don t forget to type python before filename  python script py  I have  quot No module named google quot  error if forget to type it

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I encountered the same situation  And I find out it is because the pip should be updated  It may be the same reason for your problem

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When pip tells you that you already have protobuf  but PyCharm  or other  tells you that you don t have it  it means that pip and PyCharm are using a different Python interpreter  This is a very common issue  especially on a Mac  with no standard Python package management   The best way to completely eliminate such issues is using a virtualenv per Python project  which is essentially a directory of Python packages and environment variable settings to isolate the Python environment of the project from everything else   Create a virtualenv for your project like this   cd project virtualenv --distribute virtualenv -p  path to python executable   This creates a directory called virtualenv inside your project   Make sure to configure your VCS  for example Git  to ignore this directory    To install packages in this virtualenv  you need to activate the environment variable settings     virtualenv bin activate   Verify that pip will use the right Python executable inside the virtualenv  by running pip -V  It should tell you the Python library path used  which should be inside the virtualenv   Now you can use pip to install protobuf as you did   And finally  you need to make PyCharm use this virtualenv instead of the system libraries  Somewhere in the project settings you can configure an interpreter for the project  select the Python executable inside the virtualenv

User · Answer

if protobuf is installed then import it like this  pip install protobuf  import google protobuf

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The reason for this would be mostly due to the evil command pip install google  I was facing a similar issue for google-cloud  but the same steps are true for protobuf as well  Both of our issues deal with a namespace conflict over the  google  namespace  If you executed the pip install google command like I did then you are in the correct place  The google package is actually not owned by Google which can be confirmed by the command pip show google which outputs   Name  google  Version  1 9 3  Summary  Python bindings to the Google search engine   Home-page  http   breakingcode wordpress com   Author  Mario Vilas  Author-email  mvilas gmail com  License  UNKNOWN  Location   lt Path where this package is installed gt   Requires  beautifulsoup4  Because of this package  the google namespace is reserved and coincidentally google-cloud also expects namespace google  gt  cloud and it results in a namespace collision for these two packages  See in below screenshot namespace of google-protobuf as google  gt  protobuf  Solution  - Unofficial google package need to be uninstalled which can be done by using pip uninstall google after this you can reinstall google-cloud using pip install google-cloud or protobuf using pip install protobuf FootNotes  - Assuming you have installed the unofficial google package by mistake and you don t actually need it along with google-cloud package  If you need both unofficial google and google-cloud above solution won t work  Furthermore  the unofficial  google  package installs with it  soupsieve  and  beautifulsoup4   You may want to also uninstall those packages  Let me know if this solves your particular issue

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I got the same error message as in the title  but in my case import google was working and import google protobuf wasn t  on python3 5  ubuntu 16 04    It turned out that I ve installed python3-google-apputils package  using apt  and it was installed to   usr lib python3 dist-packages google apputils    while protobuf  which was installed using pip  was in   usr lib python3 5 dist-packages google protobuf   - and it was a  google  namespace collapse   Uninstalling google-apputils  from apt  and reinstalling it using pip  solved the problem   sudo apt remove python3-google-apputils sudo pip3 install google-apputils

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This solved my problem with google protobuf import in Tensorflow and Python 3 7 5 that i had yesterday   Check where is protobuf  pip show protobuf   If it is installed you will get something like this  Name  protobuf Version  3 6 1 Summary  Protocol Buffers Home-page  https   developers google com protocol-buffers  Author  None Author-email  None License  3-Clause BSD License Location   usr lib python3 dist-packages Requires   Required-by  tensorflow  tensorboard    If not  run pip install protobuf    Now move into the location folder   cd  usr lib python3 dist-packages   Now run  touch google   init   py

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Had the same issue and I resolved it by using      conda install protobuf

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You should run   pip install protobuf   That will install Google protobuf and after that you can run that Python script   As per this link

[python] ImportError: No module named google.protobuf

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