Install Panda3d to run with python - python

I am running Ubuntu 10.04, I have python installed and running fine. When I installed pand3d from the deb package from the site and tried to run an sample. Like it is describe in this page:
http://www.panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Installing_Panda3D_in_Linux
I got the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Tut-Asteroids.py", line 13, in
import direct.directbase.DirectStart
ImportError: No module named direct.directbase.DirectStart
In the same page as above there is a description to how to solve this error. But I don't understand what do I need to do.
Can any one tell-me what do I need to do?

Found the answer. I had two pythons installed. One in /usr/bin and the other in /usr/local/bin. Turn out I needed to use the /usr/bin version to run what I needed. Hope this helps other!

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How do I fix python 3.8.5. error "ImportError: cannot import name 'open_code' from 'io' (unknown location)"

I'm a complete novice as far as python is concerned, but need to install it for PlatformIO. I installed python-3.8.5-amd64.exe on Windows 10 and installed PlatformIO in VSCode. But when I try to do a build I get:
Fatal Python error: init_sys_streams: can't initialize sys standard streams
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\io.py", line 54, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'open_code' from 'io' (unknown location)
Since io.py is installed as part of the python installation, I assume the 'open_code' symbol should be installed. Running the Repair option from python-3.8.5-amd64.exe and rebooting claims everything's fine, but it still fails.
Can someone explain, in simple terms, what I need to do to fix this?
Note: there's an answer here which indicates it's due to there having been 2 versions of python installed and that something's pointing at the wrong verison, but it doesn't explain how to fix it in any way that I understand (as well as being for a Linux installation).
Thanks.
The solution was to delete the .platformio folder from my user folder. Obviously, PlatformIO was 'remembering' the previous python install and confusing things!
this happened to me when multiple versions of Python was installed , and the PATH environment variable had a python path whose version was different from what i was executing. Adjusted the path variable to demote the unused python version and promote the currently used version and it solved the problem.thanks!

Really messed up my Linux Ubuntu system python

Example: I was trying to update my system today and I got this error:
wli#ubuntu:~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 28, in <module>
from gi.repository import Gtk
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
from ._gi import _gobject
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi._gi'
Not sure what to do? Ive tried every common fix found in forums online, reinstalling and uninstalling python, everything. The only thing I can think of that may have caused this is that I tried to change my system's python version through a series of convoluted commands in order to force Atom to use python3. Any ideas for how I can fix this? I'd really like to be able to install things on my laptop; I can't even reinstall Ubuntu because that requires actually being able to use Python.
I even made my system point to 2.7.6 using update-alternatives but it still doesn't work.
For reference, the system Python version is now 2.7.6 and I run 14.04.

Using a Python Package Outside of Anaconda

I wish to run a package, openquake; however, it was installed separately from Anaconda, which I am using to run python.
[centos modules]$ which python
~/anaconda2/bin/python
I have set openquake up and I believe it's installed correctly, however, when I try to run my script, I receive the following error:
[centos maxdist]$ python ../script.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "script.py", line 12, in <module>
from openquake.hazardlib.source import ComplexFaultSource
ImportError: No module named openquake.hazardlib.source
I was wondering if I need to add a line to my script for it to find the openquake module for it to run successfully? In general, what's the best way to run a python package that is installed outside of the main Anaconda python instance? I am trying to avoid having to re-install openquake for Anaconda, as I was having a little bit of difficulty with that work-around.
Thank you.
If both environments, anaconda and default python that you installed the library for have the same python version, then
import sys
sys.path.append(r'/path/to/package')
from openquake.hazardlib.source import ComplexFaultSource
Check if this works. If the package is compiled for different version, then there will be an error. Also, I would suggest you to use one environment and avoid doing this for the sake of simplicity.

ImportError: No module named twisted.persisted.styles

From IDLE, I tried to run a script with a newly installed scrapy 1.0.3.
I'm using a script from a friend whom it worked for (but on Windows, I'm on a Mac).
From the import of scrapy on the first line, I get this error when running the program:
ImportError: No module named twisted.persisted.styles
The whole script, if it's helpful, points to this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/eliasfong/tutorial/tutorial/spiders/medspider.py", line 1, in <module>
import scrapy
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/scrapy/__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
from . import _monkeypatches
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/scrapy/_monkeypatches.py", line 20, in <module>
import twisted.persisted.styles # NOQA
ImportError: No module named twisted.persisted.styles
Any suggestions on how to tackle this problem?
Just try to force the update of twisted :
pip install twisted --upgrade
That works for me with python3.4 and Scrapy==1.1.0rc1
Either twisted is installed on your mac (I highly doubt it since it's not a standard library) and for whatever reason the IDE (i'm assuming that's what you mean since you typed "idle") or the terminal you are in doesn't have your updated environment variables, meaning it doesn't understand where your default python libraries are (again I highly doubt it), or you simple do not have twisted installed on your mac. If it's not installed you have a couple of options:
The easiest way to install a python package is through pip.
If that not an option you can try homebrew which is another package manager for macs. It offers an easy way to install packages correctly.
If that still is not an option for you or you simply don't want to attempt that you can download twisted directly from here (the .bz2 since you're on a mac), click on it and it should unzip it for you. Then just run setup.py and it should install it in the correct location on your mac.
If that still doesn't work and you have decent knowledge of unix. Use the "locate" command on the terminal and find out where your dist-packages directory is and put the source for twisted in there directly and then attempt to import twisted in your IDE or in the python interpreter to verify that it is installed.
note: If you're still having problems after it is installed trying restarting your IDE or messing with some setting to make sure your IDE has the right environment and python path. Hope that helps!
It could be related to having installed Python without bzip2. I had the same error and this helped me, see the accepted answer here:
Installing Twisted through pip broken on one server
Had this exact thing on FreeBSD. Solution (as root/sudo):
chmod -R go+rX /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Some directory permissions weren't set up right on install.

Installing Numpy with OpenBLAS support in home directory

I'm installing a Python (2.7.8) environment locally in my home folder on a server, in order to use newer versions of Python and some of its libraries (Numpy, Theano) together with OpenBLAS. For this, I first installed Python in the folder usr in my home directory (/home/my_home/usr/) as described here:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2002-March/012903.html
The installation seems to have gone smoothly. I checked this by starting the Python interpreter, which displays the right version on startup.
Following this, I installed OpenBLAS into /home/my_home/opt folder as described here:
Compiling numpy with OpenBLAS integration
... which also didn't give me any errors. However, now when I try installing Numpy (according to the instructions in the above link), I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 22, in <module>
import subprocess
File "/home/ext_sxc/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 427, in <module>
import select
ImportError: No module named select
I suppose the straightforward thing to do is to find the package for select, compile and install it. I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do because the last time I installed Python 2.7.6 locally in a home directory, there were no such errors. As I understand, the select module should have been installed along with Python.
This also happens when I try installing IPython in a similar way in my home folder. The library which gives the ImportError is different.
I'm wondering if these are related to a more general mistake I may have made while installing Python. I'd appreciate any advice on this issue. Please let me know if any additional information would help. Thanks!

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