Not able to install io module in python 3.4 on win10

Question

I'm trying to install the io module in python3.4 or in py 2.7 on my Win10 with

python -m pip install io

in order to use io.StringIO with pycurl but in both cases it says:

   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement io (from versions: )
   No matching distribution found for io

I actually want to use curl with the GET method to access a https site on spotify
and process the json result...

Any idea?
Thanks

Why are you trying to *install* `io`? That's a *standard library module*, you don't need to install it, it is already part of Python (from 2.6 onwards). — Martijn Pieters, Dec 18 '16 at 12:43

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '16 at 12:44

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You do not have to explicitly install io. It comes along with python bundle at the time of installing python. Within your code, just do:

import io

and it will work fine

answered Dec 18 '16 at 12:44

Moinuddin Quadri

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score 8 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

The io module is part of Python already. It is in the standard library from Python 2.6 onwards. See the Python 2 and Python 3 versions of the documentation.

In fact, there is no io package on PyPI to install (the link gives a 404 not-found error).

Note that I expect pycurl to write bytestrings, not Unicode text. You probably want to use io.BytesIO instead here. See Pycurl and io.StringIO - pycurl.error: (23, 'Failed writing body) and the PyCurl documentation.

Not able to install io module in python 3.4 on win10

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