On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Kushal Kumaran <kus...@locationd.net> wrote: > Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >>> Larry Martell wrote: >>> >>>>> On linux the system sqlite3 is used. >>>> >>>> I tried building and installing sqlite from source and that did not >>>> solve the problem. >>> >>> You misunderstood: the problem is not sqlite3 it's that python needs >>> sqlite3's header files. >>> >>>>> Is that a Python version that you compiled yourself? >>>> >>>> No I installed it with pip install python2.7 >>> >>> I'd never have thought of trying that -- but still: did that download binary >>> blobs or did it invoke the C compiler? >> >> Sorry I mistyped - it wasn't pip it was yum. >> > > Are you sure that is the python you are running? The python provided by > the OS repositories would have installed python at /usr/bin/python > (possibly with additional names such as /usr/bin/python2.7). The > exception you posted earlier is looking at files in /usr/local and > /opt/rh, neither of which would be searched by the system-installed > python by default. > > It is possible (likely?) that /usr/local/bin is earlier in your $PATH > than /usr/bin, which is resulting in some /usr/local/bin/python > shadowing the system python. If so, run the system python with an > absolute path like /usr/bin/python and see if you are able to import > sqlite3.
/usr/bin/python2.7 is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/python2.7: $ ls -l /usr/bin/python2.7 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 24 Apr 22 2016 /usr/bin/python2.7 -> /usr/local/bin/python2.7 On Redhat 6 the system python is 2.6. You cannot change that as it breaks yum. /usr/local/bin/ is earlier in my path then /usr/bin. But I used python2.7 all the time here and other packages work fine. What led me down this rabbit hole was that I am trying to use pypolibox and that is failing with this traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/pypolibox", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('pypolibox==1.0.2', 'console_scripts', 'pypolibox')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.35-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 343, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.35-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2309, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.35-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2015, in load entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pypolibox/pypolibox.py", line 13, in <module> from nltk.featstruct import Feature File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nltk/__init__.py", line 137, in <module> from nltk.stem import * File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nltk/stem/__init__.py", line 29, in <module> from nltk.stem.snowball import SnowballStemmer File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nltk/stem/snowball.py", line 26, in <module> from nltk.corpus import stopwords File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nltk/corpus/__init__.py", line 66, in <module> from nltk.corpus.reader import * File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nltk/corpus/reader/__init__.py", line 105, in <module> from nltk.corpus.reader.panlex_lite import * File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nltk/corpus/reader/panlex_lite.py", line 15, in <module> import sqlite3 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 24, in <module> from dbapi2 import * File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 28, in <module> from _sqlite3 import * ImportError: No module named _sqlite3 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list