Cannot import name search

[nateGeorge]

I've installed google via pip for both python2 (system distro) and anaconda for python3. I'm using ubuntu 16.04. When I try to import anything, like search, it says

ImportError: cannot import name 'search'

That's after doing

from google import search

The same thing happens in python2 or 3.

When I import google and check the 'dir', it says:
(python3)

In [84]: dir(google)
Out[84]: ['__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__']

(python2)

In [3]: dir(google)
Out[3]: ['__doc__', '__name__', '__path__']

Any ideas what's going on? The __init__.py file looks fine where it's installed, which I found from google.__path__. But I thought for most packages, .__file__ was the way to specify the filepath to the module.

[tudoanh]

Maybe try again with python3-pip? I'm using pip for Python 3 and have no problems.
You should use virtualenv.

[MarioVilas]

I cannot reproduce the problem...

$ pip install google
Collecting google
  Downloading google-1.9.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from google)
Installing collected packages: google
Successfully installed google-1.9.3
$ python
Python 2.7.12+ (default, Sep 17 2016, 12:08:02) 
[GCC 6.2.0 20160914] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from google import search
>>> 

Perhaps you have another module with the same name?

[MarioVilas]

Ah, I get it now, this other ticket describes the problem: #36

[MarioVilas]

Changed the name of the package to "googlesearch" to avoid the name collision. Also updated the version number since this would break existing scripts.

[tsunami18]

Changed the name of the package to "googlesearch" to avoid the name collision. Also updated the version number since this would break existing scripts.

how can i do this ?

[HdiaSaad]

Change "from google import search" To from googlesearch import search

[ThePyProgrammer]

ImportError: cannot import name 'search' from 'googlesearch'

[MarioVilas]

You'll have to give me more that that because I've no idea what you have installed or how in your computer.

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[adhv45]

AttributeError: module 'googlesearch' has no attribute 'search'

This is not working on google colab apparently.

[MarioVilas]

Seems to work for me...

[adhv45]

Thank you for your valuable time. I think it was the issue of the name collision. There were different modules I had installed for google-search. So I uninstalled all of them and then reinstalled "pip install google" only and then it worked.

[MarioVilas]

Glad to be of help! :)

[TeoSkondras]

Thank you for your valuable time. I think it was the issue of the name collision. There were different modules I had installed for google-search. So I uninstalled all of them and then reinstalled "pip install google" only and then it worked.

Had the exact same issue, changed to a new clean venv and it worked