Python DNS module import error

Question

I have been using python dns module.I was trying to use it on a new Linux installation but the module is not getting loaded. I have tried to clean up and install but the installation does not seem to be working.

      $ python --version     Python 2.7.3     $ sudo pip install dnspython     Downloading/unpacking dnspython       Downloading dnspython-1.11.1.zip (220Kb): 220Kb downloaded       Running setup.py egg_info for package dnspython      Installing collected packages: dnspython       Running setup.py install for dnspython      Successfully installed dnspython     Cleaning up...     $ python     Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06)      [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.     >>> import dns     Traceback (most recent call last):       File "", line 1, in      ImportError: No module named dns  

Updated Output of python version and pip version command

      $ which python     /usr/bin/python     $ python --version     Python 2.7.3     $ pip --version     pip 1.0 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)  

Thanks a lot for your help.

Note:- I have firewall installed on the new machine. I am not sure if it should effect the import. but i have tried disabling it and still it does not seem to work.

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue with dnspython.

My solution was to build the source from their official GitHub project.

So my steps were:

git clone https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython cd dnspython/ python setup.py install 

After doing this, I was able to import the dns module.

EDIT

It seems the pip install doesn't work for this module. Install from source as described.