Modulenotfounderror: no module named chardet

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Here are the solutions to solve the error Modulenotfounderror: no module named chardet.

• Solution 1: Install the chardet Module

  The common reason is that the python does not provide chardet within a standard library because it will need to install it first.
  
  Step 1: Install Pip in Windows:
  This command can install chardet in your path virtual environment on Windows platform, Linux platform and MacOS platform.
  
  Make sure that your pip python version is updated. If it is not, you will use either the two following commands to install a PIP.
  
  In your project root directory, open the command prompt(CMD) to install the following command. Choose either of these two commands:
  
  python -m pip install --upgrade pip

pip install pandas
  
  Step 2: Install chardet in Windows:
  This is the following command to install the chardet in python 2:
  
  pip install chardet
  
  
  
  

• Solution 2: How to Install Python chardet on MacOS?

  Here are the steps to install chardet in MacOS
  
  Step 1:  Install the latest version of Python3 in MacOS. 
  Step 2: You will Check if the pip3 and python3 are correctly installed in your computer with the use of the following commands below:
  
  python3 --version
  
  or
  
  pip3 --version
  
  Step 3: You need always to check if your PIP is updated to avoid the common errors during the installation using the following command below:
  
  pip3 install --upgrade pip
  
  Step 4: Install the chardet using the pip3 with the us of the the following command below:
  
  pip3 install chardet
  
  Step 5: Checking the chardet installation on macOS
  To check if the chardet module is installed properly in macOS, you will use the following import command in your python terminal or in a command prompt(CMD).
  
  If there is an error appeared while importing the module then it will not be installed properly or successfully.
  
  import chardet

• Solution 3: Install the chardet Module in Ubuntu

  This is the following command to install the chardet Module in Ubuntu.
  
  sudo apt install python3-chardet

• Solution 4: Install the chardet module in server-side

  If you encountered the error in server side. The following command below to install in server side:
  
  pip install --user chardet