Getting frustrated here because I can't seem to get things right here:
I want to use python3.3 (on Ubuntu12.04) and am having major issues getting things to work. I was working fine with python3.2 until I wanted to use Bottle+Jinja2, so I had to upgrade to python3.3 which I may have done improperly (sudo apt-get install python3.3 I think?).
Things seemed to work for a little while until I was in the python interpreter (accessed via python3 on the command line, after I changed the symlink for python3 from python3.2 to python3.3). I called a function that raised an error, and it ran into the spew of errors that results in:
[user]:~$ python3.3
Python 3.3.0 (default, Sep 25 2013, 19:28:08)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = []
>>> x[2]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 64, in apport_excepthook
from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
from apport.report import Report
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 30, in <module>
import apport.fileutils
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 23, in <module>
from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 20, in <module>
import apt
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
import apt_pkg
ImportError: No module named 'apt_pkg'
Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range
and I just don't understand why. I tried doing
sudo apt-get remove --purge python-apt
sudo apt-get install python-apt
as per this related SO question and answer but that doesn't seem to alleviate the issue.
Anyone have any thoughts? I've seen something about setuptools, distribute, easy_install, pip, ez_setup.py but I haven't been able to sift through all the chaff to get to an understandable way forward. Thanks
EDIT1: I had read elsewhere that perhaps I just needed to symlink apt_pkg.so to apt_pkg.cpython-32mu.so in /usr/bin/python3/dist-packages but when I do that, instead of an apt_pkg error, I get a segfault...
EDIT2: at this point, I don't mind uninstalling and reinstalling python3.3; but I don't know how to do that properly, apparently.
