ImportError: cannot import name _remove_dead_weakref

[joseph pareti]

on an Ubuntu VM with :


   1. Linux JP-Paid-UBUNTU-DSVM 4.13.0-1014-azure
   2. Python 3.5.4 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

$ manta manta_genSimData.py
Loading script 'manta_genSimData.py'
Traceback (most recent call last):

skipping some details

...
File "/anaconda/lib/python2.7/weakref.py", line 14, in <module>
    from _weakref import (
*ImportError: cannot import name _remove_dead_weakref*
Script finished.