ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

Question

On Redhat 4.4.7-18 I am trying to run python3 code using sqlite, but I get the following import error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "database.py", line 7, in <module>
    import sqlite3
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from sqlite3.dbapi2 import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module>
    from _sqlite3 import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

I tried to install it:

>sudo pip install sqlite3
Collecting sqlite3
  Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/sqlite3/

(while the network is reachable...) and with the following command:

> sudo yum install sqlite-devel
Loaded plugins: post-transaction-actions, product-id, refresh-packagekit,
              : rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, security, subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
Setting up Install Process
Package sqlite-devel-3.6.20-1.el6_7.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

So it is installed and not installed? Any suggestion how I can solve the original problem?

Answer 1

Not a direct answer but I ended up here with my search engine... So for my fellow web-surfers:

I had a similar issue, but on ubuntu 16.04 with a manually compile python3.6 version :

    from _sqlite3 import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

I had to install libsqlite3-dev (sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev) and compile from the start python3.6 to make it work.

Answer 2

Yep.

sudo yum install sqlite-devel

Followed by rebuild of Python 3.8.3 from source did the trick. Thx!

Answer 3

I had this issue on linux mint 20 after sqlite3 successfully installed

from _sqlite3 import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

also, could not import sqlite3 into python interpreter

Fix:

sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev

cd your python installer directory

./configure sudo make install

Answer 4

It happens when you install Python using the source code and then compile. Usually people tend to install python and sqlite into separate folders. This causes sqlite binary inaccessible to python executables.

To solve this problem, use a common folder to install BOTH, the Python as well as sqlite. So that python binary and sqlite binary, reside in the same bin folder.

Below example script will solve:

INSTALL_BASE_PATH="/home/<user>/<tools>"
cd ~
mkdir build
cd build
[ -f Python-3.9.10.tgz ] || wget --no-check-certificate https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.10/Python-3.9.10.tgz
tar -zxvf Python-3.9.10.tgz

[ -f sqlite-autoconf-3380000.tar.gz ] || wget --no-check-certificate https://www.sqlite.org/2022/sqlite-autoconf-3380000.tar.gz
tar -zxvf sqlite-autoconf-3380000.tar.gz

cd sqlite-autoconf-3380000
./configure --prefix=${INSTALL_BASE_PATH}
make
make install

cd ../Python-3.9.10
LD_RUN_PATH=${INSTALL_BASE_PATH}/lib configure
LDFLAGS="-L ${INSTALL_BASE_PATH}/lib"
CPPFLAGS="-I ${INSTALL_BASE_PATH}/include"
LD_RUN_PATH=${INSTALL_BASE_PATH}/lib make
./configure --prefix=${INSTALL_BASE_PATH}
make
make install

cd ~
LINE_TO_ADD="export PATH=${INSTALL_BASE_PATH}/bin:\$PATH"
if grep -q -v "${LINE_TO_ADD}" $HOME/.bashrc; then echo "${LINE_TO_ADD}" >> $HOME/.bashrc; fi

LINE_TO_ADD="export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${INSTALL_BASE_PATH}/lib"
if grep -q -v "${LINE_TO_ADD}" $HOME/.bashrc; then echo "${LINE_TO_ADD}" >> $HOME/.bashrc; fi

source $HOME/.bashrc