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I always downloaded python from python.org and install it on Windows machines (XP and 8 ) easily. On this Windows XP machine however I have the following problem. After installing python2.7 32 bit on the machine , I cannot start neither the interactive python page nor the python shell ( IDLE or GUI ) ( neither form the Windows Start nor from the command line). I set the path in Windows ( and I double checked and renewed the command line shell as well). From the Windows command line when I type the python -- version, I get the python version, so I assume it is installed. When I simply type python from the command line I get : ImportError: No module name site When I try python helloworld.py I get the same error message. I searched around in FAQ, I seems nobody has such problem. I appreciate any help with this problem.

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  • Possible duplicate [Python (Windows) - ImportError: No module named site](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5599872/python-windows-importerror-no-module-named-site) – Ewan Jan 29 '14 at 22:09
  • have you tried running interpreter on a command line with -v option? I just ran into exactly the same "site import" error yesterday and with -v option got the exact stack trace of the offending package under site-packages that was causing the issue – DXM Jan 29 '14 at 22:11
  • Was it zipimport? How did you resolve the problem? – user2672972 Jan 29 '14 at 22:30
  • @user2672972: no for me it was something silly that I apparently did myself with repoze.who (which I would like to call a package, but it doesn't have __init__.py files like normal packages do and when I added those to make IDE code completion happy, that's what broke the entire interpret in the same way as you are seeing) – DXM Jan 29 '14 at 23:12
  • Thanks Ewan : The answer is posted in Stackoverflow.com :Python (Windows) - ImportError: No module named site – user2672972 Jan 29 '14 at 23:35

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I suggest that you uninstall the Python with Add or Remove Programs in control panel(link on how to do that below)

Then use the first download link on the python website or click the link below:

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  • Thanks for your suggestions. However I did this two times before , I post the problem. I downloaded the same python. – user2672972 Jan 29 '14 at 22:22