🔒 ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'docx'

[drowsy hedge]

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[alpine mirage]

once you have created a venv you need to activate it, have you done that?

when you create a venv it makes a folder, inside the folder is another folder "scripts" and the activation script is in there generally. I think there are different scripts for different shells (powershell vs cmd). Once you get it activated, libraries will install to the venv folder and you will activate it to use them moving forward

[hasty bay]

if you go into your system environment variables, you can create PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV

this will stop you from pip installing outside of a venv

[alpine mirage]

that's interesting

[hasty bay]

(tho I actually do not have pip installed on global at all, so it's not useful for me)

the benefit of using the envvar is that you can simply remove it later if you wanna use pip on global

[thin dagger]

can't find the folder 😭

[hasty bay]

what folder?

[alpine mirage]

the scripts folder

[hasty bay]

o

[hasty bay]

it may be hidden

[alpine mirage]

maybe in bin?

[hasty bay]

try running it from your terminal

[hasty bay]

hmm, looks like it's not a venv from the venv module

or maybe the Windows ones look different

windows venv venv has Include, Lib, and Scripts

[thin dagger]

I found scripts.py, is that it?

[hasty bay]

what did you use to create the venv?

[alpine mirage]

activating a venv has nothing to do with python

have a look at

[thin dagger]

Idk, a coworker did, but he doesn't work anymore lol

😭

[hasty bay]

is the venv fresh?

[alpine mirage]

what kind of project?

[hasty bay]

like, it wouldn't be an issue to just make a new one?

[alpine mirage]

possible it's on conda

different process if that rings any bells

only ever seen that used for data science and ML, is why I ask what kind of project

I'm probably distracting you though, Jay is right, it's really not that hard to make a new venv if you know what libraries you need

[thin dagger]

hmm i'm automating some emails, they send me the data, I put it in the app and it returns a docs filled with the data

cause i need to write a lot of certificates every day

I'll make a new venv then

[hasty bay]

what OS are you on?

on a POSIX system, the activate is in bin

[thin dagger]

Mac

Honestly, I can't make it work, I'll just ask someone in the office tomorrow, I'm just an intern so

[random forge]

here is a very good tutorial/article/blog post about how to use venvs both in the shell on different systems and vscode or pycharm if you use one of those https://realpython.com/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/

[thin dagger]

thank youu

[random forge]

on mac the directory in the venv is named bin, it's only windows that has the Scripts directory for that

as the article states, you need to run

source venv/bin/activate
```to activate your venv, then you can `pip install` the library

[thin dagger]

Ohh i'll tryy now

ok, so

It says this:
Requirement already satisfied: python-docx in /opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages (1.2.0)

I think it's not downloading in the venv

but it says (venv)

when i type

[random forge]

the article covers all of this and a lot more, it's very long and indepth so you might not want to read it all, but you can check the table of content at the start and read the parts that you need or find interesting

[random forge]

do you mean that your prompt start with (venv)?

[thin dagger]

yup

(venv) myname foldername %

like this

[random forge]

that would indicate that the venv is activated for that shell instance

[thin dagger]

but it's still downloading outside the venv 😔

[random forge]

then it might be that it's not activated in your ide where you are trying to run it or write your code

[thin dagger]

Idk how but i asked an llm, gave some random code and now it worked

💀 anyway thank you guys

[drowsy hedge]

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