--- Question closed
It was my mistake, my uWSGI startup script switches to a different virtualenv.
--- Original question
I'm trying to publish push notifications from my Flask app server to Android APP.
Server environment (dev):
- Mac OS Sierra
- Flask 1.0.2
- Python 3.6.5
- firebase-admin SDK 2.17.0 (the latest version)
When running code as Flask application for initialising the SDK, import statement throws error:
import firebase_admin
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'firebase_admin'
However, running above import statement from Python interpreter mode gives no error. PyCharm is also able to recognize the firebase_admin module. All three setups (Flask app, interpreter, PyCharm) use the same virtualenv.
I had tried few older versions of SDK but error persists. Any clue?
--- More details
The module was installed from command line within virtualenv using command pip install firebase-admin.
The error occurs when running the code as Flask+uWSGI app from command line, within the same virtualenv. pip freeze shows that the module is indeed present.
--- Question closed
It was my mistake, my uWSGI startup script switches to a different virtualenv.
How did you install/add the firebase_admin package to your project?
If you haven't explicitly installed/added the package, I've only come across a few cases (there may be other cases/solutions as well), that gives off the error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'firebase_admin':
PyCharm
If using PyCharm, you can install/add it from the PyCharm preferences
- File > Preferences > Project > Project Interpreter
- Click the add button, search for firebase, select the appropriate package:
firebase-admin
- Click "Install Package" button.
Visual Studio Code / Alternative installation
I use Visual Studio Code, and opted to install firebase_admin libraries into the virtualenv using a requirements.txt file saved in the root directory. You can still use this method even if you're using PyCharm:
1) Activate your environment
2) Create a requirements.txt file with the following contents:
firebase_admin
// other packages
3) Run pip install
pip install -r requirements.txt
4) After installing, you can confirm that's already available by checking the site-packages folder in the following directory:
env/lib/site-packages/firebase_admin
env/lib/site-packages/firebase_admin-<version>.dist-info
5) Try running the code again.
Hope that helps!