[python] ImportError: No module named 'google'

This is not a duplicate. My scenario is a bit different and I could not find a solution from similar posts here. I installed Python 3.5. I ran the pip install google command and verified the modules. Google was present. I installed Anaconda 3.5 and tried to run z sample code. But I'm getting the import error. Please find the screen shot attached. What am I missing? Do I have to link my Spyder to Python installation directory in some way? Why is Spyder unable to google module?

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According to https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/apis/oauth2/v1 you need to install google-api-python-client package:

pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

I faced the same issue, I was trying to import translate from google.cloud but kept getting same error.

This is what I did

  1. pip install protobuf
  2. pip install google-cloud-translate

and to install storage service from google google-cloud-storageshould be installed separately

Ref - https://cloud.google.com/python/


got this from cloud service documentation

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-translate

Worked for me !


I had a similar import problem. I noticed that there was no __init__.py file in the root of the google package. So, I created an empty __init__.py and now the import works.


I found a similar error when i tried to access the bigquery from google.cloud.

from google.cloud import bigquery

Error was resolved after i install the google.cloud from conda-forge community.

conda install -c conda-forge google-cloud-bigquery

kindly executed these commands.

pip install google
pip install google-core-api

will definitely solve your problem


Use this both installation and then go ahead with your python code

pip install google-cloud    
pip install google-cloud-vision

  1. Close Anaconda/Spyder
  2. Open command prompt and run the below command
  3. conda update --all
  4. Start the app again and this time it should work.

Note - You need not have to uninstall/reinstall anything.


I could fix it by installing the following directly.

pip install google.cloud.bigquery
pip install google.cloud.storage

I solved the problem in this way:

  1. sudo pip install conda
  2. pip install google

and no more error.