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Why Installing Package And Module Not Same In Python?

I want to install the Biopython module. So I used the command sudo apt-get install python-biopython. That installs the package. Now if I type import Bio in Python, the compiler can

Solution 1:

I'm using 3.4.0

Since you are using Python 3.4 it won't work because the Debian package you install via apt-get will only install the Python2.x version.

To install the Python 3 version, I recommend pip. Here how to install (Note that this package may not have a Python 3 version):

How to install pip with Python 3?

EDIT:

If you still cannot get the import working on python2, try the following:

import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/share/pyshared')
import Bio

According to this package's files list, the files are installed into a special directory I don't see in the default sys.path list

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