Mac - Python - import error: “No module named site”

Question

Tonight I am trying to get the package called \"requests\" installed and have begun fumbling around with the terminal and do not have very much intuition when it comes to th

Answer 1

site.py is a standard module that is run by python by default. It allows tweaking sys.path and running some code before your code starts running. It should live in the standard library and can hardly be somehow absent. However, you can disable automatic importing of the module by passing -S switch to python.

Anyway, you should somehow inspect why the module can not be imported. Try to examine sys.path list.