title: Installing Biopython: ImportError: No module named Bio
body: <p>trying to install Biopython on Fedora 21, Python 2.7. I've done the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>[mike@localhost Downloads](17:32)$ sudo pip2.7 install biopython
  You are using pip version 6.1.1, however version 7.1.0 is available.
  You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
  Collecting biopython
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:79: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
    InsecurePlatformWarning
    Downloading biopython-1.65.tar.gz (12.6MB)
      100% |████████████████████████████████| 12.6MB 33kB/s 
  Installing collected packages: biopython
    Running setup.py install for biopython
  Successfully installed biopython-1.65
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And then</p>
  
  <pre><code>[mike@localhost Downloads](17:32)$ ipython
  Python 2.7.9 |Anaconda 2.2.0 (64-bit)| (default, Mar  9 2015, 16:20:48) 
  
  In [1]: import Bio
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-1-a7440e1156be&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
  ----&gt; 1 import Bio
  
  ImportError: No module named Bio
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>I tried installing biopython using </p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo easy_install -f http://biopython.org/DIST/ biopython
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and it installed it into /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/biopython-1.65-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/. Didn't work.</p>
  
  <p>Then I tried installing it using the same command, without the sudo:</p>
  
  <pre><code>easy_install -f http://biopython.org/DIST/ biopython
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which installed it into /home/mike/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/biopython-1.65-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg</p>
  
  <p><strong>And that worked!</strong> Both for ipython and python. But why did it work...?</p>