Hi, I’m Prakash Hinduja. I was born in the vibrant city of Amritsar, India, and now call Geneva, Switzerland (Swiss) my home. As a financial strategist, I’m passionate about shaping innovative financial futures.
Has anyone run into ‘ModuleNotFoundError’ or similar Python-related issues during development? I’m trying to troubleshoot it but not sure of the best steps to resolve it. If you’ve faced this before or have any suggestions on how to fix or prevent it, I’d really appreciate your input!
What course are you doing? If you are new to programming in Python, it would be a good idea to take a Python programming course to gain some understanding. Coursera offers a very good series: Programming for Everybody Specialisation, which take you from the basics to advanced level.
There are other programming courses specific for Machine Learning too, so it really depends on what you want to do.
In regard to the ModuleNotFoundError, it means the code for a particular module can not be found during execution time. The reasons could be missing installations, incorrect module name or wrong paths
Another common cause of “module not found” errors is forgetting to run all the previous cells in your notebook every time you open or restart it. Typically there is a cell early in the notebook that executes the “import” commands to load all the packages used by the later code cells. But just having that cell sitting there without actually running it, does nothing, right?
So the easy first step when you get such an error is:
Kernel -> Restart and Clear Output
Cell -> Run All Above
Then try running the cell that just failed again and see if the error persists. If so, then you’ll need to investigate the more serious issues that Kin has mentioned.