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I'm trying to import the requests module for my app which I want to view locally on Google App Engine. I am getting a log console error telling me that "no such module exists".

I've installed it in the command line (using pip) and even tried to install it in my project directory. When I do that the shell tells me:

"Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages".

App Engine is telling me that the module doesn't exist and the shell says it's already installed it.

I don't know if this is a path problem. If so, the only App Engine related application I can find in my mac is the launcher?

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  • You could use python's httplib module instead Commented Aug 11, 2014 at 17:15

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You need to put the requests module i.e. the contents of the requests folder within your project directory. Just for the sake of clarity, your app directory should look like

/myapp/app.yaml
/myapp/main.py
/myapp/requests/packages/
/myapp/requests/__init__.py
/myapp/requests/adapters.py
etc...

then within main.py put something like

import webapp2
import requests

class MainHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        g = requests.get('http://www.google.com')
        self.response.write(g.text)

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
    ('/', MainHandler)
], debug=True)
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Thank you so much! Sorry for the basic question (I haven't been at this very long) but how do I do that from Git? There are so many files I don't know what to use.
@RadhaKapoor you have to actually copy it into the folder directly.
@RadhaKapoor it's probably simpler to just download the requests library from github.com/kennethreitz/requests/archive/master.zip unzip it and stick the requests directory into your appengine folder.
@user714852 so I literally just dragged and dropped the entire requests folder you linked to into my web app project folder. I'm still getting the same error ie "no module named requests". Did I put it in the wrong folder - did you mean something different? Thank you again - I really appreciate it.
have you put "import requests" before you call the library?
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You need to add the requests/requests sub-folder to your project. From your script's location (.), you should see a file at ./requests/__init__.py.

This applies to all modules you include for Google App Engine. If it doesn't have a __init__.py directly under that location, it will not work.

You do not need to add the module to app.yaml.

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