python 2.7 – pip install json fails on Ubuntu
python 2.7 – pip install json fails on Ubuntu
json is a built-in module, you dont need to install it with pip.
While its true that json is a built-in module, I also found that on an Ubuntu system with python-minimal installed, you DO have python but you cant do import json. And then I understand that you would try to install the module using pip!
If you have python-minimal youll get a version of python with less modules than when youd typically compile python yourself, and one of the modules youll be missing is the json module. The solution is to install an additional package, called libpython2.7-stdlib, to install all default python libraries.
sudo apt install libpython2.7-stdlib
And then you can do import json in python and it would work!