No module named docker

I’ve installed docker-py using sudo pip install docker-py. Here are my details:

$ pip freeze | grep docker-py && python --version && docker version
docker-py==1.5.0
Python 2.7.6
Client:
 Version:      1.8.3
 API version:  1.20
 Go version:   go1.4.2
 Git commit:   f4bf5c7
 Built:        Mon Oct 12 05:37:18 UTC 2015
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Server:
 Version:      1.8.3
 API version:  1.20
 Go version:   go1.4.2
 Git commit:   f4bf5c7
 Built:        Mon Oct 12 05:37:18 UTC 2015
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

When I go into python and try to import it, I get:

>>> from docker import Client
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named docker

However, if instead I clone this repo and run the setup.py install, I can import docker. I guess there’s something different between the version in the PyPI and github?

Here’s the version information for the docker-py installation that works:

$ pip freeze | grep docker-py && python --version && docker version
docker-py==1.6.0-dev
Python 2.7.6
Client:
 Version:      1.9.0
 API version:  1.21
 Go version:   go1.4.2
 Git commit:   76d6bc9
 Built:        Tue Nov  3 17:43:42 UTC 2015
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Server:
 Version:      1.9.0
 API version:  1.21
 Go version:   go1.4.2
 Git commit:   76d6bc9
 Built:        Tue Nov  3 17:43:42 UTC 2015
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Here’s my python version information:

$ python --version
Python 2.7.6

[TomasTomecek]

To me it looks like that you install docker-py for python 2 and you are trying to import it in python 3. Or your $PYTHONPATH is misconfigured.

EDIT: does any of these work?

$ python2 -c "import docker"
$ python3 -c "import docker"

[CatherineH]

I installed pip from the github repo (this is because I believe the debian package python-pip to be too out of date). Then used pip to install docker-py, i.e.:

git clone https://github.com/pypa/pip
cd pip
sudo python setup.py install
sudo pip install docker-py