Hey there! Let's work through this frustrating requests import issue together—it's almost always a misalignment between your virtual environment and PyCharm's configured interpreter. Here's what to check step by step:

1. Confirm PyCharm is using your activated virtual environment #

This is the most common culprit. Let's verify:

• Go to File > Settings > Project: [Your Project Name] > Python Interpreter (on Mac, it's PyCharm > Settings > Project: [Your Project Name] > Python Interpreter)
• Look through the list of installed packages. If requests isn't here, PyCharm is using a different environment than the one you installed it in.
• To fix this: Click the gear icon in the top-right > Add > Virtualenv Environment > Existing environment
• Navigate to your virtual environment's Python executable:
  • Windows: venv\Scripts\python.exe
  • Mac/Linux: venv/bin/python
• Select it, hit OK, and check if requests now appears in the package list.

2. Install requests directly in PyCharm's Terminal #

Sometimes the system terminal and PyCharm's terminal use different environments. Let's bypass that:

• Open the Terminal tab at the bottom of PyCharm
• Activate your virtual environment here:
  • Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
  • Mac/Linux: source venv/bin/activate
• Run pip install requests
• Now try importing requests in your code again.

3. Clear PyCharm's cache and restart #

IDE caches can sometimes hold onto old environment data. Let's reset that:

• Go to File > Invalidate Caches...
• Check the box for "Clear file system cache and local history"
• Click Invalidate and Restart
• Once PyCharm reopens, test the import again.

4. Verify your virtual environment works outside PyCharm #

Let's rule out a broken virtual environment:

• Open your system terminal (not PyCharm's)
• Activate your virtual environment
• Run pip list—you should see requests listed
• Run python to open a Python shell, then type import requests
  • If this works, the issue is definitely with PyCharm's configuration (go back to step 1)
  • If this also throws an error, your virtual environment is corrupted. Delete it, create a new one with python -m venv venv, activate it, and reinstall all your dependencies (including requests and Django).

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