AWS Lambda import module error in python

Question

I am creating a AWS Lambda python deployment package. I am using one external dependency requests . I installed the external dependency using the AWS documentation http://do

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue, this was an exercise as part of a tutorial on lynda.com if I'm not wrong. The mistake I made was not selecting the runtime as Python 3.6 which is an option in the lamda function console.