# no module found: paraview error

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-module-found-paraview-error/10451
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [October 5, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-module-found-paraview-error/10451 "2022-10-05T09:14:43Z")
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### Author: ![Pravin\_Poudel](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/pravin_poudel/32/9830_2.png) [@Pravin\_Poudel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Pravin_Poudel)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-module-found-paraview-error/10451/1 "2022-10-05T09:14:43Z")

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I followed the thread [Not able to import paraview.simple module on windows](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-import-paraview-simple-module-on-windows/537) still i am not able to run paraview and am getting not module found error:

This is path in environment variable:

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3365df068a811fb57b797fb6acf19445f5d86631.png)

and this is my pythonpath variable:

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1429d7f856a7fb92c12bdfefaee32300441b7f06.png)

and still when i run my code

```auto
PS C:\work\paraview Projs\paraviewPY> & C:/Users/pravin/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python39/python.exe "c:/work/paraview Projs/paraviewPY/main.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\work\paraview Projs\paraviewPY\main.py", line 2, in <module>
    from paraview.simple import *  
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paraview'
PS C:\work\paraview Projs\paraviewPY>

```

in my console !!

is this how not i am supposed to make it work?

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-module-found-paraview-error/10451/2 "2022-10-30T15:59:34Z")

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You’ll need some path under that `ParaView 5.10.1-…` directory in `PYTHONPATH`. The `site-packages` one at the top of your `PATH` should be in `PYTHONPATH` instead.