Dear all,
I am sure this issue has been discussed before, but I could not find it.
I just wanted to start Hail and installed library using ‘pip install hail’ as indicated on https://hail.is
When importing the library with ‘import hail as hl’ the import error displays: No module named ‘hail’.
Help would be great with this and thanx in advance!
Best 
This sounds like a Python installation issue. Are you using both pip3 and python3?
Jepp, installed hail with pip3 and trying to import with python3.x
Hail requires python 3.6 or 3.7, so I would have expected pip installation to fail. Could you try with an installation of python 3.7?
… ah, will try this …
Python is upgraded to 3.7 now, but this did not really help so far …
try: python3 -m pip install hail?
What’s the python 3.7 executable you’re using?
ah, ok, then try python3.7 -m pip install hail
… no, sorry, still the same error …
to be clear, this is what you’re doing?
$ python3.7 -m pip install hail
$ python3.7
>>> import hail as hl
… yes, right.
what if you do python3.7 -m pip show hail?
That’s all? Nothing like:
$ python3 -m pip show hail
Name: hail
Version: 0.2.45
Summary: Scalable library for exploring and analyzing genomic data.
Home-page: https://hail.is
Author: Hail Team
Author-email: hail@broadinstitute.org
License: UNKNOWN
Location: /Users/tpoterba/anaconda3/envs/hail/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Requires: asyncinit, python-json-logger, gcsfs, humanize, hurry.filesize, PyJWT, requests, aiohttp-session, scipy, decorator, bokeh, pyspark, tabulate, numpy, tqdm, nest-asyncio, parsimonious, pandas, aiohttp
Required-by: benchmark-hail
or
$ python3 -m pip show doesnt_exist
WARNING: Package(s) not found: doesnt_exist
… no, I am sorry, that’s all
Is there an option with miniconda or conda?
Yes, using miniconda or conda is preferred!