ImportError: No module named '_sqlite3' in python3.3

Question

sqlite3 error

import sqlite3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from sqlite3.dbapi2 import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 26, in <module>
    from _sqlite3 import *
ImportError: No module named '_sqlite3'

i use sqlite3 install command

pip install pysqlite
Downloading/unpacking pysqlite
  Downloading pysqlite-2.6.3.tar.gz (76kB): 76kB downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package pysqlite
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
        (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 98: invalid continuation byte 
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 16, in <module>

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/codecs.py", line 300, in decode

    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 98: invalid continuation byte

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/pysqlite
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log

Answer 1

I am a Fedora 20 user. To solve this:

1. Install sqlite-devel package, using:

   yum install sqlite-devel
   

2. After installing,recompile python from the source using:

   ./configure
   make && make install
   

For multiple versions of Python, use altinstall instead of install.