Sublime Text 3 – ImportError: No module named ‘package_control’ Fix

So I encountered this problem when I tried to install the SCSS package into my Sublime 3 text editor.  For some reason when I went into the Package Control – which I have had set up for years – it wasn’t installing the package. 

Trying to install the SCSS Package…

Go into package control (preferences-package-control)…

click on “Package Control: List Packages” and I would even be able to select the one I wanted – “SCSS”. But then it wouldn’t do anything.

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The Error - ImportError: No module named ‘package_control’…

I went into “View – Show Console”

and I noticed it was giving me the following error “ImportError: No module named ‘package_control’../

Possible Solutions…

I searched around on the web to see if there was a way to fix this and most were the answer of “uninstall and reinstall” variety or were -  in my mind – overly-complicated fixes.  I found the following solutions along with several others that seemed promising…

Package control not working
Problem with package control ST3

This one seemed like it might work…

WBond – GitHub – ImportError: No module named ‘package_control’

and pointed to a possible answer…

Package Control – Troubleshooting - Purging and Reinstalling

But my settings file did not have in the ignore list “Package Control”, instead it had the following…

{
	"ignored_packages":
	[	"0_package_control_loader",
		"ASP",
		"Vintage"
	]
}

What worked…

After looking further and coming up with nothing I decided I would just remove the “0_package_control_loader” from the “ignored_packages”  by going into “Preferences – Settings” and editing the “Preferences.sublime-settings—user”. NOTE: Sublime will open up both the default and the user file side-by-side. You can only make changes to the user file.

And so I changed my file to this (note that yours may be different)…

{
	"ignored_packages":
	[	"ASP",
		"Vintage"
	]
}

I went through the process of installing the SCSS package again through Package Control and received NO errors. I looked under “View – Syntax” and SUCCESS! SCSS was now listed as an available syntax.

I didn’t have to purge anything, I didn’t have uninstall anything – all I simply had to do was remove one line from settings and restart Sublime Text 3 and it worked.