ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google.cloud*'

[hvent90]

Making this issue so future Python developers scratching their heads will have a solution:

After debugging for hours to get a simple trace to run, here was the fix:

1. Remove all pip modules (you could probably get away with only removing all google cloud related modules)
2. Install grcpio-tools, opencensus, and google-cloud-trace

[WARNING: REMOVES ALL PIP MODULES] sudo pip3 freeze | sudo xargs pip3 uninstall -y
python3 -m pip install grpcio-tools opencensus google-cloud-trace

There are two issues out in the wild that are causing this:

• Installations of google cloud python libraries (such as gcloud or google-cloud) cause other No Module named 'google.cloud.*' errors
• I can't find any online documentation mentioning that google-cloud-trace is needed.

Having mention of google-cloud-trace on the README.md would be helpful.

Cheers!

[stewartreichling]

I submitted a pull request to document this since I encountered the same issue.

[odeke-em]

Great, thank you @hvent90 for filing this issue and @stewblr for the fix!