IOError: [Errno 13] file not accessible with Google AppEngine 1.6.1

Question

Maybe it\'s a bug, but I\'m posting here anyway.

I get the following issue on my local AppEngine testing server:

WARNING  2012-01-10 06:08:40,336 rdb         


        

Answer 1

I have been puzzled by similar issue - IOError when importing an egg file / package from site-packages. I am using Ubuntu 13.10, GAE 1.8.8, virtualenv and python 2.7.

In the end, I've worked out that I could not import anything that I installed using easy_install (which by defaults puts egg files into site_packages).

Once I uninstalled all these eggs, and reinstalled using pip install command, everything started working normally.

Hoping this will save someone else some time, as I will never get my wasted hours back.