python unix install, sqlite3

[Simon]

On May 29, 7:05 am, vasudevram <vasudev... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 29, 5:52 pm, Simon <resmi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I installed the source code on unix for python 2.5.1. The install went
> > mainly okay, except for some failures regarding:
> > _ssl, _hashlib, _curses, _curses_panel.
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> > No errors regarding sqlite3.
> > However, when I start python and do an import sqlite3 I get:
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> > /ptmp/bin/> python
> > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 29 2007, 05:19:30)
> > [GCC 3.3.2] on sunos5
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import sqlite3
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> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "/ptmp/Python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/sqlite3/__init__.py", line
> > 24, in <module>
> >     from dbapi2 import *
> >   File "/ptmp/Python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27,
> > in <module>
> >     from _sqlite3 import *
> > ImportError: No module named _sqlite3
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> Some ideas:
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> I don't know if sqlite3 comes bundled with the standard Python source
> bundle. My guess is not. If not, that's the cause of the error - you
> need to install sqlite3 (and probably pysqlite3 (not sure of the name
> (whether it has a trailing 3) which, if I remember, is the Python
> binding/wrapper for sqlite3 (which is a C library, I think). Other
> possible cause of the error (if sqlite3 _is_ bundled with Python and
> no Python binding/wrapper is needed, is that sqlite3 depends on one of
> those other libraries you mention (such as _hashlib) for which you got
> errors while installing Python from source.
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> HTH
> Vasudev Ram
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Vasudev,
  Thanks so much for the reply. I went to their website and your guess
was correct. Python 2.5 has included support for sqlite but it only
includes the PySqlite interface module (now called sqlite3). It does
not include sqlite3 with the source distribution.

Simon