Install Twisted in python failed with 'No such file'

Question

I want use Twisted in Python, but when I installing ,in comes this error, how to handle it?

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running build_ext
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c conftest.c -o conftest.o
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c conftest.c -o conftest.o
building 'twisted.runner.portmap' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c twisted/runner/portmap.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/twisted/runner/portmap.o
twisted/runner/portmap.c:10:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Answer 1

You are missing the python development headers, needed to build packages that need to compile extensions.

If you are building on OSX, make sure you either install a prebuilt mac python package or if building python from source, use the framework flag when configuring. And also make sure you have XCODE installed so that you have a compiler.

If you are building on Linux, you probably need to install the python devel headers. For instance on Ubuntu you would need: apt-get install build-essential python-dev. Once you have the python development headers, twisted should be able to find them when you build with that python interpreter.