I recently reinstalled ubuntu and did upgrade to 16.04 and cannot use python:
$ python manage.py runserver
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
Aborted
At this point, python itself doesn't work
$ python
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
Aborted
Even this suggestion is no longer working:
unset PYTHONHOME
unset PYTHONPATH
Every every I fix it one way, it comes back again. Several answers help to fix it temporarily, but not for good. I have reinstalled python and python3 several times. What can I do from here?
For Python-3 try removing virtual environment files. And resetting it up.
rm -rf venv
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv/
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Python_3
edit fo
For Windows10 User.
I was using python3.4 on Windows10. I installed python3.5. I couldn't find PYTHONPATH, PYTHONHOME env variable. If I command python in CMD console, It kept using python3.4. I deleted python3.4. Whenever I command python in CMD console, it starts showing an error like below.
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
I searched to figure out my problem. Solution was simple. When you install python3.5, you can custom install and check Add Python to environment variables in Advanced Options.
I just leave here for case that someone have similar issues visit here so that they don't waste their precious time much to figure out.
I was facing the same problem under Windows7. The error message looks like that:
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
Current thread 0x000011f4 (most recent call first):
I have installed python 2.7(uninstalled now), and I checked "Add Python to environment variables in Advanced Options" while installing python 3.6. It comes out that the Environment Variable "PYTHONHOME" and "PYTHONPATH" is still python2.7.
Finally I solved it by modify "PYTHONHOME" to python3.6 install path and remove variable "PYTHONPATH".
For the same issue on Windows7
You will see an error like this if your environment variables/ system variables are incorrectly set:
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
Current thread 0x00001db4 (most recent call first):
Fixing this is really simple:
When you download Python3.x version, and run the .exe file, it gives you an option to customize where in your system you want to install Python. For example, I chose this location: C:\Program Files\Python36
Then open system properties and go to "Advanced" tab (Or you can simply do this: Go to Start > Search for "environment variables" > Click on "Edit the system environment variables".) Under the "Advanced" tab, look for "Environment Variables" and click it. Another window with name "Environment Variables" will pop up.
Now make sure your user variables have the correct Python path listed in "Path Variable". In my example here, you should see C:\Program Files\Python36. If you do not find it there, add it, by selecting Path Variable field and clicking Edit.
Last step is to double-check PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH fields under System Variables in the same window. You should see the same path as described above. If not add it there too.
Then click OK and go back to CMD terminal, and try checking for python. The issue should now be resolved. It worked for me.
I had this error during migration to Ubuntu 17.10, and this solved the problem :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure python3
Maybe you will have to close your session and reconnect.
Look at /lib/python3.5 and you will see broken links to python libraries. Recreate it to working directory.
Next error -
./script/bin/pip3
Failed to import the site module
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/script/script/lib/python3.5/site.py", line 703, in <module>
main()
File "/home/script/script/lib/python3.5/site.py", line 683, in main
paths_in_sys = addsitepackages(paths_in_sys)
File "/home/script/script/lib/python3.5/site.py", line 282, in addsitepackages
addsitedir(sitedir, known_paths)
File "/home/script/script/lib/python3.5/site.py", line 204, in addsitedir
addpackage(sitedir, name, known_paths)
File "/home/script/script/lib/python3.5/site.py", line 173, in addpackage
exec(line)
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/script/script/lib/python3.5/types.py", line 166, in <module>
import functools as _functools
File "/home/script/script/lib/python3.5/functools.py", line 23, in <module>
from weakref import WeakKeyDictionary
File "/home/script/script/lib/python3.5/weakref.py", line 12, in <module>
from _weakref import (
ImportError: cannot import name '_remove_dead_weakref'
fixed like this - https://askubuntu.com/questions/907035/importerror-cannot-import-name-remove-dead-weakref
cd my-virtualenv-directory
virtualenv . --system-site-packages
I had deleted rm -r /usr/lib/python*
dpkg -S '/usr/lib/python3*' | grep encodings
And then found I needed libpython3.10-minimal
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libpython3.10-minimal
I finally ran
sudo apt-get install --reinstall $(dpkg -S '/usr/lib/python3*' | cut -d ':' -f1 | cut -d ',' -f1 | sort | uniq | tr '\n' ' ')
sudo apt-get install --reinstall $(dpkg -S '/usr/lib/python2*' | cut -d ':' -f1 | cut -d ',' -f1 | sort | uniq | tr '\n' ' ')
To re-install all the packages I deleted files for
Had the same problem when updating my mac to macOS Catalina, while using pipenv. Pipenv creates and manages a virtualenv for you, so the earlier suggestion from #Anoop-Malav is the same, just using pipenv to remove the virtual environment based on the current dir and reset it:
pipenv --rm
pipenv shell # recreate a virtual env with your current Pipfile
I was facing this issue "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings" after updating to macOS Catalina.
I was having multiple versions of Python installed in my system.
Removing all the python versions(2.7 and 3.7.4) from macOS system and reinstalling the latest python 3.8 worked for me.
To remove a python from macOS, I've followed the instructions from here How to uninstall Python 2.7 on a Mac OS X 10.6.4?
The above link is for python 2.7 and but you can use the same for 3.7 also.
In my case just changing the permissions of anaconda folder worked:
sudo chmod -R u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx /path/to/anaconda
I got this error when try to launch MySql Workbench 8.0 on my macOS Catalina 10.15.3.
I solved this issue by installing Python 3.7 on my system.
I guess in future, when Workbench will have version greater than 8, it will require newer version of Python. Just look at the library path in the error and you will find required version.
I tried everything, deleted PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME - the error didn't go away. I had overlooked that I had specified a python-home path under WSGIDaemonProcess in the wsgi configuration of a VirtualHost. I removed that and the error was gone.
I had a similar issue. I had both anaconda and python installed on my computer and my python dependencies were from the Anaconda directory. When I uninstalled Anaconda, this error started popping. I added PYTHONPATH but it still didn't go.
I checked with python -version and go to know that it was still taking the anaconda path.
I had to manually delete Anaconda3 directory and after that python started taking dependencies from PYTHONPATH.
Issue Solved!
Because this is the first result in google I just want to add the following information for anybody else having problems with jails:
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
Current thread 0x00007f079b16d740 (most recent call first):
Aborted (core dumped)
When attempting to import python into your jail you both need to link the dependencies and /usr/lib/pythonX.Y to [JAIL]/usr/lib/. Hope this helps.
I was facing same issue on a Debian server and for me the problem was that I've put my project inside the /root/ folder for which mod_wsgi didn't have the rights to access. So I simply moved my project into /var/www/html/ and update my VirtualHost configuration.
In my case, what worked was the following: I changed the env path in the conf from /home/vinzee/.pyenv/versions/envname/bin/ to /home/vinzee/.pyenv/versions/envname/ and it worked.
It seems the environment path needs to be the path to the root folder of the virtual environment (and not the path to ROOT_VENV/bin/).
You can additionally try without the trailing slash as others have suggested, but in my case, it worked both with and without it.
It seems this error can happen for a large variety of reasons (given the number of different answers on here).
For me, the issue was related to the fact that my app was deployed in a virtualenv, and the pyvenv.cfg file had the wrong permissions. It must be writable by the user uwsgi is running as (which in my case was http).
Just go to File -> Settings -> select Project Interpreter under Project tab -> click on the small gear icon -> Add -> System Interpreter -> select the python version you want in the drop down menu
this seemed to work for me
I could also fix this. PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME were in cause.
run this in a terminal
touch ~/.bash_profile
open ~/.bash_profile
and then delete all useless parts of this file, and save.
I do not know how recommended it is to do that !
I installed the library ase. Since then I can't execute python3 on terminal neither run its python files. I found out with the command which python3 command that with python3 is located at '/usr/local/bin/python3'. The libraries, including ase, are located at '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages' apparently.
See:
pip3 install --upgrade git+https://gitlab.com/ase/ase.git#master
WARNING: The scripts ase, ase-build, ase-db, ase-gui, ase-info and ase-run are installed in '/usr/local/Cellar/python#3.9/3.9.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/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.
This is the error I got when I try to run python3 on terminal:
Fatal Python error: init_sys_streams: can't initialize sys standard streams
Python runtime state: core initialized
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ase/io/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ase'
I think that something has to be wrong at my .bash_profile file however, I'm not getting the error. Here is my edited .bash_profile:
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ase:$PYTHONPATH
export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/python#3.9/3.9.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin:$PATH
Hope you can help me, thank you!
Update:
I changed my PYTHONPATH from:
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ase:$PYTHONPATH
to:
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
Now I can run python3 on terminal again, however I try to execute ase directly on the terminal it seems that the command is not found.
-bash: ase: command not found
I have already checked out the requires (matplotlib, scipy, numpy) and they are all installed. Seems that everything is wrong with the PATH. I don't know what could be.
The binaries files related to ase package are not anymore into this directory "/usr/local/Cellar/python#3.9/3.9.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin". I don't know where they are since the installation was successfully done.
According to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/240037/why-did-pip-install-a-package-into-local-bin I redefined my paths to:
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
and seems to be working, I already ran a program containing that package, however when I enter the folder '/usr/local/bin' I don't find those binary files.
If you can help me again I will be grateful.
Im working on my Mac and I just fixed the script.
Then I wanted to make an edit and no nothing seem to work anymore.
I get the error message;
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "lu.py", line 1, in
import cplex
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cplex'
I did not made the script and my knowledge about python is not much
When I want to start the script I use
terminal -- cd (file location) pyzton3 lu.py
Anyone who can help me with this problem?
This happens when the Python interpreter cannot find the CPLEX installation.
Usually this can be fixed by setting the PYTHONPATH variable correctly. Make sure that this variable contains the CPLEX Python libraries.
Assuming you are on Linux, you can do the following:
Find the CPLEX (or COS) installation folder.
Assuming this is /path/to/COS then you should have folder /path/to/COS/cplex/python/ and in that folder different sub-directories that correspond to different Python versions.
Assuming you are running Python 3.6, execute the following in your shell: export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/COS/cplex/python/3.6/x86-64_linux" and then execute your script as before in the same terminal.
I have 2 python tools that I have to run via the windows cmd line. One is written in python2.7 while the other requires python3.6.
I have installed the newest Anaconda python3.7 version and created two new environments in 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs' called 'python27' and 'python36'. For some reason I had to manually install numpy and scipy using conda install -n env_name numpy scipy for each of the new environments.
The reason I have to run both tools using the windows cmd line is that I have integrated them into a workflow environment (RCE by the DLR in case this is relevant), which executes integrated tools in this way. Which means I cannot simply use the Anaconda Prompt instead.
I cannot simply add the python installation to the PATH environment variable because of each tool requiring a different python version (and the file being called 'python.exe' in all versions), so I tried to create aliases for the cmd prompt as suggested by "roryhewitt" in this thread Aliases in Windows command prompt.
my 'python27.bat' file:
#echo off
echo.
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\python27\python.exe %*
The problem with this approach is that python encounters an error when trying to import numpy:
>>> import numpy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\python27\lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py", line 142, in <module>
from . import core
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\python27\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\__init__.py", line 71, in <module>
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError:
IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THIS FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE!
Importing the multiarray numpy extension module failed. Most
likely you are trying to import a failed build of numpy.
Here is how to proceed:
- If you're working with a numpy git repository, try `git clean -xdf`
(removes all files not under version control) and rebuild numpy.
- If you are simply trying to use the numpy version that you have installed:
your installation is broken - please reinstall numpy.
- If you have already reinstalled and that did not fix the problem, then:
1. Check that you are using the Python you expect (you're using C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\python27\python.exe),
and that you have no directories in your PATH or PYTHONPATH that can
interfere with the Python and numpy versions you're trying to use.
2. If (1) looks fine, you can open a new issue at
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues. Please include details on:
- how you installed Python
- how you installed numpy
- your operating system
- whether or not you have multiple versions of Python installed
- if you built from source, your compiler versions and ideally a build log
Note: this error has many possible causes, so please don't comment on
an existing issue about this - open a new one instead.
Original error was: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Does anyone know a better way to run python scripts with a specific python environment via the windows cmd line, or what is causing the import error when I use the alias?
TLDR: I have 2 python tools that require python2.7 and python3.6 respectively. I have to run these tools using the windows cmd line and using aliases to the 'python.exe' file in the specific anaconda environments results in an import error of numpy. Is there a better way to handle two python environments via the cmd line or an easy fix for the import error?
It seems that the ImportError when using python2.7 via the alias in the cmd line was due to the anaconda environment not being activated. This caused the module to be unable to load properly.
I have added the conda functionality to be used in the cmd line as instructed in the post by "Simba" here: Conda command is not recognized on Windows 10. This has fixed the numpy ImportError.
I can now execute the desired tools from the cmd line using the correct python version by activating the correct anaconda environment first, and then calling the alias
Example:
C:\Users\user>conda activate python27
(python27) C:\Users\user>python27 main.py
I am trying to do the following in Python 3.7.1 on Windows
import sqlite3
but I get the following error message
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\sqlite3\__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
from sqlite3.dbapi2 import *
File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\sqlite3\dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module>
from _sqlite3 import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
I have searched for a solution to the problem for quite a while now to no avail. I have also successfully run pip install pysqlite3 on the Anaconda prompt, but the import still fails. What do?
I got this working on windows by downloading: the sqlite3 dll (find your system version)
And placing it into the folder: C:\Users\YOURUSER\Anaconda3\DLLs
(Depending on how you installed Anaconda, this may have to be placed into
the following folder: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\DLLs)
According to #alireza-taghdisian, you can locate the exact path of
your conda environments (where you need to copy the sqlite3 dll) by typing:
conda info --envs on your anaconda prompt.
Locate the sqlite3.dll file. In my case it was in following folder
C:\Users\Admin\anaconda3\Library\bin
where C:\Users\Admin\anaconda3 is the folder where Anaconda was installed
Add this to PATH in environment variables, and it should work then.
Try copying the sqlite3.dll from the
C:\Users\YOURUSER\anaconda3\Library\bin
folder to
C:\Users\YOURUSER\Anaconda3\DLLs
Please check https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/4332
I added anaconda root/Library/bin to my PATH and now it works!
Add CONDA_DLL_SEARCH_MODIFICATION_ENABLE=1 to your environment variables.
before executing the program, enter conda activate in your shell.
I had tried all above solutions But for me and my system I got to know that
I downloaded Python in C:\Python27 hence there is dll folder in python C:\Python27\DLLs
I installed Sqlite3.dll in my above dll folder
May be this solution will help you because it completely depends on where do you install your python
Happy coding :)
I put the sqlite3.dll in the path folder of my Python venv and still wont work. I suspected it is a path problem.
(In my case: E:\Virtual_Env\mini_zinc\env\Scripts)
I found in my case I messed up installation in a virtual evn, somehow using an anaconda python kernel within a Python venv.
I reinstall the Python Venv and check the python version after installed Env is correct (not the Anaconda python), then proceed with Jupyter Notebook (or Juyterlab) and works fine.
I was able to resolve this issue by putting sqlite3.dll file in the C:\Users<USERID>\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs<ENV NAME>\DLLs.
Download sqlite3.dll file from https://www.sqlite.org/download.html
or copy it from C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\DLLs\
I found the #elgsantos useful. But for those who are new to Python and Conda like me, I would like to add a little bit of details.
1- I use miniconda3 for creating new environment.
2- interestingly, I got two installation path on my computer for conda: the first one (the obvious) is located on "C:\Users\taghdisian\miniconda3". The second one is on "C:\Users\taghdisian\AppData\Local\r-miniconda". The latter is the primary path that you need to copy your sqlite3 files into the envs folder. I copy them in the "C:\Users\taghdisian\AppData\Local\r-miniconda\envs\sdr3.9\DLLs" in which the sdr3.9 is one of my virtual Condo environment.
you can locate the exact path of your conda environments (where you need to copy sqlite3) by typing the conda info --envs on your anaconda prompt.
I hope this help.
got the same error while loading the jupyter notebook from other conda prompt than "base" environment.
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/2DW7E.png
Resolved by installing sqlite package
(nlpenv) C:\Users\arunk>conda install sqlite
launching
*
(nlpenv) C:\Users\arunk>jupyter notebook