I am trying to write a port scanning program as part of my course assignment. However, even after downloading Nmap, an error appeared. It says 'nmap' is not accessed by pylance. I cannot access it interactive mode either. I am still very new to programming so any form of help will be much appreciated As you can see here Nmap is already downloaded. But... And...

I tried deleting and re-installing Nmap, that did not work. I searched YouTube for solutions, but a lot of the files and programs they had I did not. I have already downloaded nmap from the website too.

CodePudding user response：

Maybe that happened because you have many interpreter and you installing in another interpreter to fix that you need to change the interpreter you can see the documentation in https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments
or you can try using python venv by write this command in your terminal

python -m venv venv

after that activate the venv and activate the venv

.\venv\Scripts\activate

after you activate the venv you just need to install the nmap

pip install python-nmap

I hope this answer can solve your problem

CodePudding user response：

You might have multiple version of python installed. When you run py is opens up 3.10.7 for you. You need to make sure you installed python-nmap for that version.

Apart from using a virtual environment, a quick fix would be to try installing nmap using pip3

pip3 install python-nmap

This will install nmap for your python3 installation. However if you have multiple python3 installations, I would suggest using a virtual environment of the particular python version you want.