Importerror no module named dateutil : Multiple ways to Fix

You may easily fix the error importerror no module named dateutil by installing python-dateutil package via any of the package managers. In this article, We will explore various ways for installing the python-dateutil package.

importerror no module named dateutil ( Solution ) –

There is a couple of solution but pip is my favorite. Truly speaking it’s not only my favorite but it is most popular among the complete data science community and python developers.

Solution 1 :

Use the below command for installing python-dateutil package.

pip install python-dateutil

The above command will install the latest stable version for python-dateutil package. But users can install the specific version for python-dateutil by adding a version with the above command. Here is an example of this.

pip install python-dateutil == 2.8.2

You may also add sudo keyword in case you need admin rights for user to run the same command. Here is how you can do it.

sudo pip install python-dateutil == 2.8.2

importerror no module named dateutil pip

Solution 2 :

Another alternative to install the python-dateuti package is conda. Conda is the official package manager with anaconda data science distribution. As you already know about the popularity of Anaconda. Specially corporates and Industrial projects they recommend anaconda and conda too much. Here is the command to install the python-dateuti package with conda.

conda install -c conda-forge python-dateutil

Solution 3 :

The third way is to install the same package with the source code. Here you first need to download the package and extract it. Here is the link to download the source code for python-dateutil .Now you need to run the below command for installing it. This will install all the dependent libraries with the package.

python setup.py install

I hope now if you adopt any of the methods, You may easily fix the above error. If you still facing some issues. Let our team know about the same. Any one of us will contact you soon on this. Thanks for reading the whole article.

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