# pyrax is required for this module

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/pyrax-is-required-for-this-module/18818>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 22, 2015, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pyrax-is-required-for-this-module/18818 "2015-07-22T06:01:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mohamed\_Megdadi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mohamed\_Megdadi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mohamed_Megdadi)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pyrax-is-required-for-this-module/18818/1 "2015-07-22T06:01:40Z")

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Hello,

We are new at ansible, we are trying to run a playbook to connect ansible with Rackspace cloud, each time we run it we have this error: “pyrax is required for this module”

but when we try to import Pyrax via python, we get the following error,

“Traceback (most recent call last): File “”, line 1, in File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrax/ **init**.py”, line 50, in from .identity import \* File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrax/identity/rax\_identity.py”, line 8, in from …base\_identity import BaseIdentity File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrax/base\_identity.py”, line 20, in from .resource import BaseResource File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrax/resource.py”, line 26, in import pyrax File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrax/pyrax/ **init**.py”, line 50, in from .identity import \* File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrax/pyrax/identity/rax\_identity.py”, line 10, in from …cloudnetworks import CloudNetworkClient File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrax/pyrax/cloudnetworks.py”, line 22, in from pyrax.resource import BaseResource ImportError: cannot import name BaseResource”

Thanks,  
Mohamed Megdadi