[Tutor] ImportError: No module named '_sysconfigdata_m'

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

----- Original Message -----

> From: eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com>
> To: Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Python Mailing List <tutor at python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] ImportError: No module named '_sysconfigdata_m'
> 
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>>  am using Linux Mint XFCE. I have to look up the exact version number. 

Just in case anybody ever looks in the archives:

antonia at antonia-HP-2133 ~ $ uname -a
Linux antonia-HP-2133 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:32:08 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

> I recently
>>  downloaded and installed Python 3.3. I downloaded the tarball
>>  and compiled, tested and installed everything as per instructions in the
>>  (readme? install?) file.
> 
> Building from the official source defaults to /usr/local as the prefix
> directory, which doesn't interfere with the platform Python in /usr.
> Did you configure with --prefix=/usr? Also, it defaults to using
> _sysconfigdata for build_time_vars  -- not _sysconfigdata_m in the
> platform subdirectory.  That's a Debian patch, which you can see in
> the following diff:

I did not use "--prefix". I just reinstalled Python 3.2 via the package manager, and it everything is working again --THANK YOU ALL!

antonia at antonia-HP-2133 ~ $ which python3.3
/usr/local/bin/python3.3
antonia at antonia-HP-2133 ~ $ which python3.2
/usr/bin/python3.2
 
Are the Python-3 versions considered to be too different that apt-get update does not replace e.g. 3.2 with 3.3? Or is that also related to the Debian-specific patches, which may cause the Debian-specific release to be (much) behind with the "generic" Python release?

> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python3.3/python3.3_3.3.2-5.diff.gz
> 
> The "command-not-found" script uses 3.x on Ubuntu/Mint:
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/command-not-found
> 
> It's 2.x on Debian, but thankfully it isn't part of the default install.
>