No module named cmake

Question

When I run the command

cmake --version

It gives me the version. But when I run

import cmake

It gives the error cmake module not present.

I am stuck and not getting how to resolve it

Answer 1

For me on MacOSX when I initially install CMake by pip, it goes to the similar behaviour.

It was solved by uninstalling CMake by pip, and installing CMake first by brew before installing by pip, and before it installing brew itself, by running in terminal commands from How to run CMake in Mac? answer.

Answer 2

You are talking about two different things:

1. When running cmake --version, you are calling the command line program CMake
2. When using import cmake in a Python program (or interactive session) you are using the cmake Python module.

You are missing the second one. You can install it, e.g. by calling

pip install cmake