What I get when I try to run it
Nothing I'm trying to import is being recognized by the IDE. I do have to admit, I am a fairly novice programmer, and the process of successfully importing external modules (, the ones that don't come with python,) is very confusing to me right now. But from everything I could scrap online, it seems like for VS 2022 I first have to go to [TOOLS] > [PYTHON] > [PYTHON ENVIRONMENTS]. Then from the environments popout I select my python version (, which is 3.10 (64-bit),) update my pip if not already up to date, search for my desired package and download. The terminal said the download completed but the IDE still can't find the import.
My installed packages in my python environment
This is a problem I've been putting off for months, and in the past I downloaded the packages through the Windows command prompt instead of the IDE. I'm not sure if it's any different, I'm not sure if one is more right. The result was the same regardless, it didn't work. And after several uninstalls and reinstalls, I even tried moving the entire package folder into my project folder to see if anything would change. The import was accepted but something in the packaged errored out. Moving files like that doesn't seem like the correct way anyway, I just want to make sure I bring up everything I tried to fix this.
I suspect that solution is something super simple that I'm just overlooking or don't know. I still kind of think the package needs to be with my .py file in some way but I'm unsure. If you can save me I'd appreciate it because I've been stumped for a while now.
I know my code is super simple, but I just wanted to show the error. I get the error before it prints.