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ModuleNotFoundError no module named ‘google.cloud.bigquery’

Have you been having trouble with the “ModuleNotFoundError” in Python?

This error lets us know that Python cannot find the module for interacting with Google Cloud BigQuery.

Let’s take a look at the causes and solutions to resolve this issue.

The ‘google.cloud.bigquery’ package helps with seamless interaction with Google Cloud BigQuery services. When trying to import this package, running into the “ModuleNotFoundError” may be due to one of many issues.

Here are some of the possible causes:

• Absence of the google-cloud-bigquery package.
• Incorrect module name in the Python code.
• Incompatibility between the installed library version and the Python version.

Here are the solution strategies for these causes:

• Install the google-cloud-bigquery Library:
  1. To begin with, install the required library. Since Python doesn’t include ‘google-cloud-bigquery’ in its standard library, we have to manually install it via pip.

     ```shell
$ pip install google-cloud-bigquery

  2. Then, make sure the pip is updated:

     $ python -m pip install --upgrade pip
• Rectify Path Issues:

  Even after installation, the error may be due to an incorrect path. Here are the steps to correct the path on Windows:

  1. First, find the Python installation folder by entering this command in the command prompt:

     where prompt
  2. Then, go to the Scripts folder and verify the presence of ‘pip’.
  3. Next, copy the location of the Scripts folder.
  4. Next, open the command prompt and go to the Scripts directory using the copied location.
  5. Then, install the library using:

     pip install google-cloud-bigquery
  6. Run the script again to verify the resolution.

Additional Solutions

• Check for relative imports causing the error.
• Verify Python and pip versions’ consistency. Use these commands

  python3 -m pip install google-cloud-bigquery

  or
  pip3 install google-cloud-bigquery
• For server-side issues, try:

  pip install --user google-cloud-bigquery
• Also, Ubuntu users can run this command to resolve the problem:

  sudo apt install google-cloud-bigquery

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Conclusion

In brief, our Support Experts demonstrated how to fix the “modulenotfounderror no module named ‘google.cloud.bigquery’” error.