I’ve been playing around with Docker and Ansible this break. I just hit a rather bizarre issue that kept cropping up. The error I got was “Failed to import the required Python library (Docker SDK for Python: docker (Python >= 2.7) or docker-py (Python 2.6))

I tried uninstalling Python 2 from the server and then reinstalling the various libraries when I found this article that solved the issue

The gist of the fix is as follows:

1. Run pip list | egrep 'requests' to confirm if the requests library is still there
2. Uninstall all the other libraries if they exist by running pip uninstall docker docker-py requests
3. Confirm that the libraries are removed by running pip list | egrep 'docker|docker-py|requests'
4. Re-install the libraries by running pip uninstall docker docker-py requests