ImportError: No module named Crypto.Cipher

I had the same problem on my Mac when installing with pip. I then removed pycrypto and installed it again with easy_install, like this:

pip uninstall pycrypto
easy_install pycrypto

also as Luke commented: If you have trouble running these commands, be sure to run them as admin (sudo)

Hope this helps!

EDIT: As winklerr correctly notes above, pycrypto is no longer safe. Use pycryptodome instead, it is a drop-in replacement


I ran into this on Mac as well, and it seems to be related to having an unfortunately similarly named "crypto" module (not sure what that is for) installed alongside of pycrypto via pip.

The fix seems to be removing both crypto and pycrypto with pip:

sudo pip uninstall crypto
sudo pip uninstall pycrypto

and reinstalling pycrypto:

sudo pip install pycrypto

Now it works as expected when I do something like:

from Crypto.Cipher import AES