Python pip install module is not found. How to link python to pip location?

Question

I\'m a newbie and I needed the pySerial and feedparser module for my projects. I\'m running Mountain lion.

I followed the following tutorial so that I could upgrade

Answer 1

For the sake of anyone also using visual studio from a windows environment:

I realized that I could see my module installed when i ran pip install

py pip install [moduleName] 
py pip list

However debugging in visual studio was getting "module not found". Oddly, i was successfully running import [moduleName] when i ran the interpreter in powershell.

Reason:

visual studio was using the wrong interpreter at: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\

What I REALLY wanted was visual studio to use the virtualenv that i setup for my project. To do this, right click Python Environments in "solution explorer", select Add Virtual Environment..., and then select the folder where you created your virtual environment. Then, under project settings, under the General tab, select your virtual environment in the dropdown.

Now visual studio should be using the same interpreter and everything should play nice!