Django - No module named _sqlite3

Question

I have django 1.4 installed on my rhel 5. By default rhel 5 has python 2.4 in it but to use django 1.4 I manually installed python 2.7.3 The development server is running fine b

Answer 1

I had the same problem with python 2.6.8 built from source on Red Hat (but this probably holds for other versions on other OS).

My problem was solved by installing sqlite-devel (Red Hat) before configuring and building python (or do config.status --recheck in your build directory, followed by make and make install.

Answer 2

This is what I did to get it to work.

I am using pythonbrew(which is using pip) with python 2.7.5 installed.

I first did what Zubair(above) said and ran this command:

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

Then I ran this command:

pip install pysqlite

This fixed the database problem and I got confirmation of this when I ran:

python manager.py syncdb

Answer 3

I got very similar error message when I tried to run the Django development server:

ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading either pysqlite2 or sqlite3 modules (tried in that order): dlopen(/Users/Rubinous/Projects/Jiiri2/jiiri_venv/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so, 2): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/sqlite/lib/libsqlite3.0.8.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/Rubinous/Projects/Jiiri2/jiiri_venv/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so
Reason: image not found

I solved this by installing pysqlite Python module with pip install pysqlite.

Answer 4

sqlite3 is part of the Python from versions 2.5 onwards. Install this lib:

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

Or you can also try installing the Python-dev package.

Answer 5

At the django.db.backends.sqlite3, it tries to

try:
    try:
        from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as Database
    except ImportError:
        from sqlite3 import dbapi2 as Database
except ImportError as exc:
    from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
    raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading either pysqlite2 or sqlite3 modules (tried in that order): %s" % exc)

So one of the modules named sqlite3 or pysqlite2 is not installed. Try to install them

$ pip install sqlite3 # or pysqlite2

Update

sqlite3 and pysqlite2 are part of Python, therefore these two packages are not in PyPi anymore.

Answer 6

FreeBSD10: for python3.5

pkg install py35-sqlite3