you should probably contact the author(s) for assistance since this is not a Python issue.
I contact the author and there is a bug in the version I'm using.
Now it works by running
$ cd /newspipe $ python ./newspipe.py
Instead of
$ python /newspipe/newspipe.py
Thanks for your help.
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