ImportError: No module named '_sqlite3' in python3.3

Question

sqlite3 error

import sqlite3 Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>     from sqlite3.dbapi2 import *   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 26, in <module>     from _sqlite3 import * ImportError: No module named '_sqlite3' 

i use sqlite3 install command

pip install pysqlite Downloading/unpacking pysqlite   Downloading pysqlite-2.6.3.tar.gz (76kB): 76kB downloaded   Running setup.py egg_info for package pysqlite     Traceback (most recent call last):       File "<string>", line 16, in <module>       File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/codecs.py", line 300, in decode         (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)     UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 98: invalid continuation byte      Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:     Traceback (most recent call last):    File "<string>", line 16, in <module>    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/codecs.py", line 300, in decode      (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 98: invalid continuation byte  ---------------------------------------- Cleaning up... Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/pysqlite Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log 

Answer 1

I am a Fedora 20 user. To solve this:

1. Install sqlite-devel package, using:

   yum install sqlite-devel 

2. After installing,recompile python from the source using:

   ./configure make && make install 

For multiple versions of Python, use altinstall instead of install.