ImportError: cannot import name JIRA

I have already done pip install jira

but when I run the following it fails with ImportError: cannot import name JIRA :

import re
from jira import JIRA

jira = JIRA('https://issues.net')
# all values are samples and won't work in your code!
key_cert_data = None
key_cert_file = "cert/jiraprivatekey.pub"
with open(key_cert, 'r') as key_cert_file:
    key_cert_data = key_cert_file.read()

[nirzari]

@kuberkaul It won’t work if your file name is ‘jira.py’ [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41621566/python-cannot-import-name-jira

[hdost]

@thakkardharmik There are a couple things that could be happening here. A. There is a clashing jira.py B. The python jira module is not installed at all C. The python jira module is not installed for the correct version

Problem A

➜  ~ python
Python 2.7.15 (default, May 16 2018, 17:50:09) 
[GCC 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import jira
>>> jira.__file__
'jira.pyc'
>>> quit()

The indicator is that jira.__file__ will show either jira.py or jira.pyc

Solution A Rename your jira.py to something else.

Problem B

➜  ~ python     
Python 2.7.15 (default, May 16 2018, 17:50:09) 
[GCC 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import jira
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named jira
>>> quit()

➜  ~ python3
Python 3.6.5 (default, Mar 29 2018, 18:20:46) 
[GCC 8.0.1 20180317 (Red Hat 8.0.1-0.19)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import jira
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named jira
>>> quit()

Solution B It’s not actually installed so run python -m pip install jira or python3 -m pip install jira as is appropriate.

Problem C

➜  ~ pip -V      
pip 10.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)
➜  ~ pip2 -V
pip 9.0.3 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)
➜  ~ 

Solution C If you did a pip install jira it’s possible that the pip does not match your python. To make sure that you install it to the proper python you can run python -m pip install jira or python3 -m pip install jira