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I installed openpyxl with

$ pip install openpyxl

when I try the command

from openpyxl import Workbook

I get

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> from openpyxl import Workbook ImportError: No module named 'openpyxl'

I am using Python 3.4 and Ubuntu 14.04, 32-bit OS type

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    You install it for python2, use pip3 install openpyxl. Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 10:35
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    In ubuntu both python 2.x and 3.x are installed. The default keyword python refers to python 2.x. To use python 3 you need to use python3 and pip3 as stated by @zetysz. Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 10:37
  • @Kenly Thank you very much for your comment. My problem is solved. Commented Mar 12, 2021 at 4:01

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If you don't use conda, just use : 

pip install openpyxl

If you use conda, I'd recommend :

conda install -c anaconda openpyxl

instead of simply conda install openpyxl

Because there are issues right now with conda updating (see GitHub Issue #8842) ; this is being fixed and it should work again after the next release (conda 4.7.6)

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Simple conda install openpyxl seems to be working at this moment (Feb 2023, MS Windows)
Thanks.......... pip install openpyxl command is working
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@zetysz and @Manish already fixed the problem. I am just putting this in an answer for future reference:

  • pip refers to Python 2 as a default in Ubuntu, this means that pip install x will install the module for Python 2 and not for 3

  • pip3 refers to Python 3, it will install the module for Python 3

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Please be careful, newer versions of Ubuntu may have Python 3 as the default
These days 'pip' is probably a soft link to 'pip3'
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In order to keep track of dependency issues, I like to use the conda installer, which simply boils down to: 

conda install openpyxl
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I had the same problem solved using instead of pip install : 

sudo apt-get install python-openpyxl sudo apt-get install python3-openpyxl

The sudo command also works better for other packages.

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You have to install it explixitly using the python package manager as

  1. pip install openpyxl for Python 2
  2. pip3 install openpyxl for Python 3
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That's exactly what @ManishGupta said.
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If you're using Python3, then install:

python3 -m pip install --user xlsxwriter

This will run pip with the appropriate version of Python3. If you run bare pip3 and have many versions of Python install, it will still fail leading to more confusion.

The --user flag will allow to install as a regular user and no require root.

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Is it more compatible with python 3 or is just your preference? I'm stuck with an openpyxl bug, works fine on windows, but not on Ubuntu server...
Like I said above, it's more precise than using pip or pip3; it works on all platforms equally well. What's the nature of your problem? What did you see when you ran the above command? What errors are you getting when you try to use this library?
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This is what worked for me:

pip uninstall openpyxl pip install openpyxl

Or you can also try

pip3 uninstall openpyxl pip3 install openpyxl

If you are using notebooks such as google-colab, jupyter-notebook, etc you can try this:

!pip uninstall openpyxl !pip install openpyxl

Or using pip3

!pip3 uninstall openpyxl !pip3 install openpyxl

Then you may need to restart your notebook if you are using a notebook.

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This work for me in Windows, if you want to export or read from Excel

pip install openpyxl pip install --user xlsxwriter pip install xlrd==1.2.0
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I still was not able to import 'openpyxl' after successfully installing it via both conda and pip. I discovered that it was installed in '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages', so this https://stackoverflow.com/a/59861933/10794682 worked for me:

import sys sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages')

Hope this might be useful for others.

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None of the other solution I found worked for me in a Python 3.8 venv I used the following: import sys sys.path.append('./env/lib/python3.8/site-packages')
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Open PyCharm Package and install OPENPYXL. Its working.

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What worked with me, including many of the above solutions, is to work in with venv, pip install all the requirements in the new virtual environment and run the program.

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