ImportError: No module named vss_connection

[Abdelkrim]

How to reproduce

1. I have executed 'pip install vsts' - see [A]
2. I have written the code to display the projects list [B]
3. I execute 'python vsts.py'

I am not interested by any other solution such as "run vsts-cli" :-)

An ERROR is generated:

c:\VSTS>python vsts.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "vsts.py", line 1, in
from vsts.vss_connection import VssConnection
File "c:\VSTS\vsts.py", line 1, in
from vsts.vss_connection import VssConnection
ImportError: No module named vss_connection

[B] list projects

https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-python-api

[A] pip install vsts

c:\VSTS>pip install vsts
Requirement already satisfied: vsts in c:\python27\lib\site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: msrest>=0.4.5 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: isodate>=0.6.0 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from msrest>=0.4.5->vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: requests-oauthlib>=0.5.0 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from msrest>=0.4.5->vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: requests~=2.14 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from msrest>=0.4.5->vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from msrest>=0.4.5->vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: enum34>=1.0.4; python_version < "3.4" in c:\python27\lib\site-packages\enum34-1.0.4-py2.7
.egg (from msrest>=0.4.5->vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: six in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from isodate>=0.6.0->msrest>=0.4.5->vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: oauthlib>=0.6.2 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from requests-oauthlib>=0.5.0->msrest>=
0.4.5->vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<2.7,>=2.5 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from requests~=2.14->msrest>=0.4.5->vsts
)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.23,>=1.21.1 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from requests~=2.14->msrest>=0.4.
5->vsts)
Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from requests~=2.14->msrest>=0.4.
5->vsts)

[tedchamb]

try running: python -m pip list, which will list all packages installed for the instance of python that is in your path. If vsts is not listed, you can run python -m pip install vsts, to install it for this instance of python.

[eltoncezar]

this is happening for me too. python -m pip list is returning as expected.

Package                       Version
----------------------------- ---------
vsts                          0.1.14

[tedchamb]

@eltoncezar, can you share sample code and stack trace of the error?

[eltoncezar]

Sure. Sample code is the same as provided in Getting Started. I only changed the token and team_instance variables.
I also tried to add the path C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\vsts to the PYTHONPATH var.

Stack trace:

$ cd "c:\dev\python" ; env "PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8" "PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1" "C:\Python27\python.exe" "c:\Users\elton.cezar\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018
.7.1\pythonFiles\PythonTools\visualstudio_py_launcher.py" "c:\dev\python" 62926 34806ad9-833a-4524-8cd6-18ca4aa74f14 RedirectOutput,RedirectOutput "c:\dev\pytho
n\vsts.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\dev\python\vsts.py", line 2, in <module>
    from vsts.vss_connection import VssConnection
  File "c:\dev\python\vsts.py", line 2, in <module>
    from vsts.vss_connection import VssConnection
ImportError: No module named vss_connection

My enviroment is:
Python 2.7 running through VSCode on Windows 10 x64

[seancasey08]

Was this ever resolved? I am running into the same issue.

[tedchamb]

If vsts is installed in your current python environment then the there should be no problem importing VssConnection from vss_connection.

@eltoncezar, if you are running in vscode, you will need to ensure your working environment is set to the same environment that the vsts module is installed in. This link may be helpful: Python debugging in Visual Studio Code

If you are still having issues try uninstalling and reinstalling vsts with the same python executable you are using to run the script.

python -m pip uninstall vsts
python -m pip install vsts

[eltoncezar]

Actually, I gave up. But thanks for your help!