Updated:
So after doing some digging I was able to find that if I add a ‘!’ before pip it allows me to run pip inside of Spyder. (I was unable to run pip inside the console originally. That is why below you will see I ran a version check on flask in a python cmd
Here I’m trying to install the latest version of flask just to make sure I have it installed.
If I run !pip install Flask I get the following:
Requirement already satisfied: Flask in {path}python37-32libsite-packages (2.0.1) Requirement already satisfied: Werkzeug>=2.0 in {path}python37-32libsite-packages (from Flask) (2.0.1) Requirement already satisfied: Jinja2>=3.0 in {path}spyderpkgs (from Flask) (3.0.0) Requirement already satisfied: itsdangerous>=2.0 in {path}python37-32libsite-packages (from Flask) (2.0.1) Requirement already satisfied: click>=7.1.2 in {path}spyderpkgs (from Flask) (8.0.0) Requirement already satisfied: colorama in {path}spyderpkgs (from click>=7.1.2->Flask) (0.4.4) Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=2.0.0rc2 in {path}spyderpkgs (from Jinja2>=3.0->Flask) (2.0.0)
That means that flask is definitely installed and can be reached by Spyder. When I run the file the following command is run:
runfile('{path_to_folder}/{file_name}.py', wdir='{path_to_folder}')
I still don’t know what is wrong with this, and I don’t use Spyder very often so I don’t believe it could be an environment variable that I messed with causing the issue.
Original Post:
So the issue is when I run my code in spyder I get the error below
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘flask’
I’m importing flask at the top of my program. Below is what I get when I run my .py file in spyder.
from flask import Flask, jsonify
I checked to make sure I have flask installed and I do. I ran python in cmd to check which version of flask I was runnning.
>>> import flask >>> flask.__version__ '2.0.1'
I’m not sure what else could be the issue. I’m not using a virtual environment so that isn’t causing an issue.
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Answer
Problem
Here was the issue.
From what I can tell it’s related to a known issue in Spyder 5. When I started the project that I’m currently working on I updated to the latest version of Spyder. Apparently, there is an issue with some of the dependences in Spyder 5 and that was causing the issue.
You can read more about the exact issue here
Solution
I simply downgraded to Spyder 4 until the patch for this issue is released.