Install Azure Python api on linux: importError: No module named storage.blob
Question: I'm trying to use the Azure Python API. I followed these installation
instructions <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/python-
how-to-install/> using

    
    
    pip install azure
    

It had no issues. (I ran it again below just to show the message stating that
it is installed. )

I want to upload to Storage as described here:
<https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-python-how-
to-use-blob-storage/>

    
    
    $ pip install azure
    Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): azure in ./lib/python2.7/azure-1.0.1-py2.7.egg
    ...
    Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): azure-storage==0.20.1 in ./lib/python2.7/azure_storage-0.20.1-py2.7.egg (from azure)
    ...
    
    $ pip install azure-storage
    Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): azure-storage in ./lib/python2.7/azure_storage-0.20.1-py2.7.egg
    ...
    
    $ python2.7
    >>> import azure
    
    /home/path/lib/python2.7/azure_nspkg-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/azure/__init__.py:1: UserWarning: Module azure was already imported from 
    ...
    /home/path/lib/python2.7/azure_nspkg-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/azure/__init__.pyc, but /home/path/lib/python2.7/azure_storage-0.20.1-py2.7.egg is being added to sys.path
      __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
    ...
    >>> import azure # a second time just to try it. This time no msg.
    >>> from azure.storage.blob import BlobService
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ImportError: No module named storage.blob
    


Answer: If you only need azure-storage you should be able to install just that
package. If you need storage and other aspects of Azure, then you can just
install azure and that will grab everything including storage. No need for
both installs.

Particularly if you had an older version of Azure installed before there can
be issues with how the dependencies link up. Give `pip uninstall azure` and
`pip uninstall azure-storage` a try and if you're feeling particularly
thorough delete anything prefixed with azure in your python lib folder. Then
install just what you need per the first paragraph.

