Problem installing pynput module for python 2

Question

I am having issues installing one python 2 module (pynput).

In fact I typed the command:

sudo pip install pynput

It works when I try the following snippet:

import pynput

but when I type:

from pynput.keyboard import Key, Controller

The console returns:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "pynput.py", line 1, in <module>
 import pynput
 File "/home/IoTree/server/pynput.py", line 2, in <module>
 from pynput.keyboard import Key, Controller
ImportError: No module named keyboard

Could you please indicate me what's wrong and how to install this module proprely ?

Thank you.

EDIT: I tried with a different .py name (pt.py) and it still doesn't execute without error ..

• Dirk: Works for me. Are you sure there are no files and/or directories named pynput, pynput.py and pynput.pyc in the directory with the pt.py script?
• Julien Blomme: There's a pynput.pyc in the same directory but I wasn't worried about this file as I don't know what is it ... Should I delete it and then retry ?
• Dirk: Yes, delete it. It's a bytecode (+/- compiled) python file and it's a leftover from before you renamed the pynput.py script.

Answer 1

Make sure that there are no files and/or directories with the same name of your script are still present in the directory with your script.]

This includes:

• pynput
• pynput.py (python script)
• pynput.pyc (compiled bytecode python script )