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No module named '_gdbm'

I don't know much about python and I need help to install a python software.
I am using linux mint 12.8.
Since I have tried many things I think I have several versions of python installed (3.5 and 3.7 I think...).
When I run setup.py install I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/CommandNotFound.py", line 7, in <module>
import dbm.gnu as gdbm
File "/home/zach/10_Soft/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/dbm/gnu.py", line 3, in <module>
from _gdbm import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_gdbm'
I tried to install python3.5-gdbm (which appears to be up to date) and python3.7-gdbm (which is not found).
They both seem to be virtual packages of the same package python3-gdbm. I don't really know what to do with this information however...
Do you know what I should do?

I was able to solve this issue using this command:
sudo cp /usr/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload/_gdbm.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload/_gdbm.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

Installing socketio module on python3 seems to be corrupting pip

While installing the socketio package for python using pip3 install socketio, I got the following results:
ERROR: launchpadlib 1.10.13 requires testresources, which is not installed.
WARNING: The scripts easy_install and easy_install-3.8 are installed in '/home/bill/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed netifaces-0.10.6 setuptools-3.3 socketio-0.2.1
Although I was able to import socketio successfully, pip3 seems corrupted(?).
Specifically, when trying to run anything including pip3, even pip3 by itself in the terminal, I get the same error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 6, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/home/<username>/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1479, in <module>
register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 144, in apport_excepthook
with os.fdopen(os.open(pr_filename,
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/crash/_usr_bin_pip3.1000.crash'
Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 6, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/home/<username>/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1479, in <module>
register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'
I tried reinstalling pip3 but it didn't help. I migrated from ubuntu to mint thinking it is something buggy with the distribution but same results. I also corrupted ubuntu when I tried to remove python and reinstall it since I couldn't use pip, but, you know what they say, live and learn.
Edit: Nothing on using pip3: module "importlib._bootstrap" has no attribute "SourceFileLoader" works for me.
I am currently using linux mint 20, but I experienced the same problem on ubuntu 20.04 and 20.04.1.
Any ideas would be appreciated!

Perhaps you meant this socketio instead?: https://pypi.org/project/python-socketio
python3 -m pip install python-socketio
The package literally named "socketio" seems like it may simply be old and unsupported1, while "python-socketio" seems alive and developed 2 3
To that end, it's often valuable to take a look at similar packages and also to watch out for typosquatting et al. when installing packages via pip!

Edit: Martijn Peters makes a good point that this is the socketio you are looking for: https://pypi.org/project/python-socketio
Read on if you need a solution for the original one you posted about.
Summary: pip3 install git+https://github.com/allenmcgehee/socketio-0.2.1-patched
I was able to reproduce this in a docker container running ubuntu:20.04 exactly as you described which gave me some hope that I could help out.
I found that socketio had a dependency for setuptools==3.3 which seemed odd to me, but lines up with why the core functionality of pip was breaking after installing socketio.
I am not sure where this package is maintained as there is no git repo referenced. I did find a Russion website in the PKG-INFO, but I wasn't sure where to go from there...
Here is a version of socketio with a requirement of setuptools>=42 so that nothing gets broken: https://github.com/allenmcgehee/socketio-0.2.1-patched
And finally, here is the single command that should install socketio for you without breaking pip:
pip3 install git+https://github.com/allenmcgehee/socketio-0.2.1-patched
**I am assuming you've already fixed pip.

This happened to me with a different module. My solution was to down-grade the version of pip and the version of the module. So, for you the answer would be to run:
python -m pip install pip== (previous version of your pip)
python -m pip uninstall socketio
python -m pip install socketio==0.2.0

Ubuntu 16.04 Python Version Management Issue

I have Python3.5 and Python3.6 installed on Ubuntu 16.04. I have installed pip for 3.6 and am using 3.6 for development. I tried to install a package (wordcloud) in 3.6 and it appeared to install correctly but I get the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/data/projects/CSC594/HW01/CSC594-DMARKS-HW01-WordCloud.py", line 11, in <module>
import wordcloud as wc
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/wordcloud/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from .wordcloud import (WordCloud, STOPWORDS, random_color_func,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/wordcloud/wordcloud.py", line 19, in <module>
from PIL import Image
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 66, in <module>
from PIL import _imaging as core
ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging'
I am not sure what is happening but, python3 is a symbolic link to python3.5 yet when I execute the code, I am calling it in python3.6. Everything looks fine except when it calls the PIL package. PIL is actually installed in 3.6, but not 3.5.
I don't understand why it switches from:
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages
to:
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
Why does this happen and how do I resolve this situation?

Trusty offers a 3.5 setup, and that won't change. It may be possible to have the two coexist in the way you suggest, but you are finding it challenging. Recommend deleting your python3.6. (Or switching to an ubuntu based on 3.6.)
Install miniconda3, and use that to provide python3.6, PIL, and friends. Very clean. You'll be glad you did.

Mac reinstall Python

I tried to use the Coursera course downloader from here and it worked for few courses but not all. They have recommended to use Python3.X. So I uninstalled Anaconda (version 2) from my Mac and installed Python3.5.1 from Python's website but still the course downloaders did not work as it was using default Python 2.7.
So I deleted Python from /usr/local/lib and now nothing is working. When I do which python it shows ``usr/local/bin/pythonand bothpythonandpython3` runs.
But when I do pip install coursera it throws error as follows:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
And when I do sudo easy_install pip, I get the following error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/easy_install", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

try Homebrew http://brew.sh/
brew install python3
curl bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3

Your Mac should have Python 2 and Python 3 installed by default. in the terminal "python" will launch Python2, "python3" will launch Python3. With Anaconda you could have just kept the Python 2 version and created an environment for Python 3, http://conda.pydata.org/docs/using/envs.html#managing-environments.
This is the solution you will most likely need, No module named pkg_resources. Setuptools is causing the issue and you will need to wget ez_setup.py. Reinstalling Anaconda will save you a lot of time and pain.

ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler installing get-pip.py

I'm getting this error when I try to install pip2.7.
I have python 2.7 as my default already, but I'm not sure why I'm getting this.
OS: CentOS 6.5
OpenSSL has been installed already.
I followed this guide to install Python 2.7:
http://toomuchdata.com/2014/02/16/how-to-install-python-on-centos/
[root#myservername arandomfolder]# python get-pip.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "get-pip.py", line 17474, in <module>
main()
File "get-pip.py", line 17466, in main
bootstrap(tmpdir=tmpdir)
File "get-pip.py", line 17406, in bootstrap
import pip
File "/tmp/tmpXq2wUP/pip.zip/pip/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
File "/tmp/tmpXq2wUP/pip.zip/pip/util.py", line 18, in <module>
File "/tmp/tmpXq2wUP/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/distlib/version.py", line 14, in <module>
File "/tmp/tmpXq2wUP/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/distlib/compat.py", line 31, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler

You have a Python without SSL support compiled. Unfortunately, get-pip appears to require SSL support.
If you are using a Linux distribution, make sure OpenSSL is installed, including the headers when compiling Python from source.

So looks like i was missing the openssl-devel dependency
after I had installed that, i was able to install this.

I was having this issue on a Centos 6.5 machine even though I had openssl and openssl-devel installed. I was also using the steps from the site:
http://toomuchdata.com/2014/02/16/how-to-install-python-on-centos/
I removed python packages I had installed before: virtualenv, NetworkX, and pil:
pip uninstall virtualenv
pip uninstall NetworkX
pip uninstall pil
Then I compiled Python 2.7 again and no longer had this issue. After I followed the steps in the link below, I reinstalled the above packages using pip2.7:
pip2.7 install virtualenv
pip2.7 install NetworkX
pip2.7 install pil --allow-external pil --allow-unverified pil

I have meet the same problem. I solved it by install openssl-devel and reconfigure, make, make install python3:
yum install openssl-devel
then go to the python3 directory:
./configure --with-zlib --with-openssl
make
make install