Django - No Module Named _sqlite3

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 but

Solution 1:

You may also have compiled python by hand with no sqlite development library installed

So, do

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3

Then, re-install python

test by entering

python
>>>import sqlite3

Solution 2:

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.

Solution 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.

Solution 4:

On MacOSX 10.9 (Mavericks), I had to run this command:

CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/sqlite/include; LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/sqlite/lib; pip install pysqlite

I used homebrew to install sqlite3.

brew update; brew install sqlite

Solution 5:

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