Pyexpat import error when running aws cli
I'm having trouble getting aws cli to run on ubuntu 14.04 I keep getting the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/aws", line 15, in <module>
import awscli.clidriver
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 16, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/botocore/session.py", line 27, in <module>
import botocore.credentials
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/botocore/credentials.py", line 23, in <module>
from botocore.compat import total_seconds
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/botocore/compat.py", line 118, in <module>
import xml.etree.cElementTree
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/cElementTree.py", line 3, in <module>
from _elementtree import *
ImportError: PyCapsule_Import could not import module "pyexpat"
When i do
ls -l /usr/lib/python2.7/*/pyexpat*
I get
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69200 Mar 23 01:57 /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/pyexpat.x86_64-linux-gnu.so
Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT
Somehow the problem was that I had to run aws commands with sudo.
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I had to face a similar problem when I was parsing xml in Python (2.7). Finally, it turned out that it was caused by an inaccurately defined environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH
. Here is my situation: xml syntax parsing library: libexpat.so was confused with the MATLAB version (libexpat.so.1.5.0) between the system version (libexpat.so.1.6.0), ImportError
occurred when loading MATLAB version libexpat.so, after I figured out exactly LD_LIBRARY_PATH
which excludes the MATLAB library path, everything went smoothly.
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