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Python Build a Social Network with Flask Making Strong Users Our Project

Pepe Suarez
Pepe Suarez
18,267 Points
Posted by Pepe Suarez
Pepe Suarez
18,267 Points

Can't Run Peewee

Hey Guys!! I'm trying to use peewee on my computer which is a Mac. I have already made a virtualenv and I was testing the diary program we made on the database course. When I run the diary.py the consoles shows me this

ImportError: no module named peewee

I have already installed flask and peewee. Do I have to install SqLite in order for it to work?? Don't know what might be wrong.

Pepe Suarez
Pepe Suarez
18,267 Points
Pepe Suarez
Pepe Suarez
18,267 Points

My computer is a windows sorry!! Hearing so much Mac on the courses made write that lol!

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

Hey Pepe,

You need to install peewee in your virtualenv:

$ pip install peewee

If you trying to run the Build a Social Network with Flask workshop files locally, there are some other imports you will also need:

$ pip install flask
$ pip install peewee
$ pip install flask-login
$ pip install py-bcrypt
$ pip install flask-bcrypt
$ pip install flask-wtf

See this answer to How to run flask locally

The virtualenv default is "no-site-packages". Not having access to global site-packages is now the default behavior. So if you installed flask and peewee outside of the virtual env or in a different virtual env those modules would not be found.