ImportError: No module named redis

Question

I have installed redis using sudo apt-get install redis-server command but I am receiving this error when I run my Python program: ImportError: No module named redis

Any idea what's going wrong or if I should install any other package as well? I am using Ubuntu 13.04 and I have Python 2.7.

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue and this is how I resolved it. Check if you use a virtualenv named dev then don't do

sudo pip install redis 

but just

pip install redis

This will install the redis package in your own virtualenv instead of your "complete" system, and this time your redis package will be found from your code.

Answer 2

To install redis-py, simply:

$ sudo pip install redis

or alternatively (you really should be using pip though):

$ sudo easy_install redis

or from source:

$ sudo python setup.py install

Getting Started

>>> import redis
>>> r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
>>> r.set('foo', 'bar')
True
>>> r.get('foo')
'bar'

Details:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/redis

Answer 3

I had the same issue, the error was that the default pip was 'pip3', and the redis package was installed under python3 packages.

This is not a redis specific issue, but if this is the case for you, try running:

sudo pip2 install redis