ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bcrypt'

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bcrypt'

TL;DR: run pip install bcrypt. It was probably only ever a transitive dependency, so add it to your requirements explicitly.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bcrypt'

The fix

pip install bcrypt

Verify:

python -c "import bcrypt; print(bcrypt.hashpw(b'pw', bcrypt.gensalt())[:7])"

Expected output: a hash prefix like $2b$12$.

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When this applies

• Fresh virtualenvs, containers, or CI runners.
• passlib or Flask-Bcrypt installed without bcrypt coming along.
• The package worked locally because something else pulled it in.

When it does NOT apply

• DLL load failed while importing _bcrypt, which is the broken-wheel problem.
• password cannot be longer than 72 bytes, which is the 4.1 behavior change.

Why this happens

Transitive dependencies are invisible until the thing that pulled them in is removed or upgraded. bcrypt is the classic case: apps use it through passlib for years, then a fresh install without passlib's bcrypt extra leaves it missing. Depending on it directly is the fix.

Compatibility

bcrypt 4.x on all supported Pythons. Ships wheels for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

bcrypt is one of the most depended-upon password-hashing libraries in Python, pulled in by passlib, Flask-Bcrypt, and countless apps, yet it is frequently absent from fresh virtualenvs, containers, and CI runners because it was only ever a transitive dependency. The PyPI page documents pip install bcrypt. Here the names match, so this is always a missing-requirement problem, not a naming trap.