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Mac OS Python 2.7.15 in virtual environment Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available [duplicate]

(py36venv) vagrant#pvagrant-dev-vm:/vagrant/venvs$ pip3 install pep8
pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Collecting pep8 Could not fetch URL
https://pypi.python.org/simple/pep8/: There was a problem confirming
the ssl certificate: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module
is not available. - skipping
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pep8 (from
versions: ) No matching distribution found for pep8
Background information - Trying to move to python 3.6.
Installed python3.6 using the below commands:
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/Python-3.6.0.tgz
tar -xvf Python-3.6.0.tgz
cd Python-3.6.0
./configure --enable-optimizations
make -j8 sudo
make altinstall python3.6
Created virtualenv by:
python3.6 -m venv py36venv
source py36venv/bin/activate
Tried to install pep8
(py36venv) pip3 install pep8
pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl
module in Python is not available.
Collecting pep8
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pep8/: There was a problem
confirming the ssl certificate: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the
SSL module is not available. - skipping Could not find a version
that satisfies the requirement pep8 (from versions: ) No matching
distribution found for pep8

I followed the below steps for python3.6 installation in ubuntu 14.04 and virtualenv pip installs works fine.
Python 3.6 Installation:
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/Python-3.6.0.tgz
tar xvf Python-3.6.0.tgz
cd Python-3.6.0
./configure --enable-optimizations
make -j8
sudo make altinstall
python3.6
If seeing the following error --
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
make: *** [altinstall] Error 1
try:
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
Validation:
Create virtualenv in python3.6:
python3.6 -m venv testenv
source testenv/bin/activate
pip install pep8
using pip:
(testenv) vagrant#pvagrant-dev-vm:~$ pip install pep8
*Collecting pep8
Downloading pep8-1.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (41kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 4.1MB/s
Installing collected packages: pep8
Successfully installed pep8-1.7.0*
(testenv) vagrant#pvagrant-dev-vm:~$ pip list
pep8 (1.7.0)
pip (9.0.1)
setuptools (28.8.0)

I stumbled upon the same issue when I tried to create a virtual environment utilising python3.6.0. Here is my solution for Mac OS X 10.12.2 (Py_minion comment was pretty close):
Setup
I created the environment by the following steps:
downloading python3.6.0
running
./configure --prefix=<some_path>`
make
make install
mkvirtualenv --python=<some_path/bin/python3.6> foo
So basically similar to: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11301911/1286093
An indication if you have the same issue as I had would be a similar line when running make
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found: _ssl
Solution
Install openssl
brew install openssl
brew unlink openssl && brew link openssl --force
Change Module/Setup or Module/Setup.dist
You can find those files in the directory of the downloaded Python version.
Comment in and, if necessary change, lines 209 - 211 (I had to change the SSL variable to my openssl location).
SSL=/usr/local/opt/openssl <---- THIS DEPENDS ON YOUR INSTALLATION
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
Given that this was the location of openssl
Set environment variables
export CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib"
make and install again
Running
./configure --prefix=<some_path>`
make
make install
mkvirtualenv --python=<some_path/bin/python3.6> foo
again did the trick for me

Running make reported to me in the shell output:
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
_bz2 _dbm _gdbm
_sqlite3 _ssl _tkinter
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
What solved the problem in my case (Linux Mint 18.1, openssl already installed) was editing the setup.py in the Python-3.6.0 folder adding there the path to where the openssl installation put the ssl.h file on my system into ( /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h ). Here the section in which I have added the line '/usr/include':
# Detect SSL support for the socket module (via _ssl)
search_for_ssl_incs_in = [
'/usr/local/ssl/include/',
'/usr/contrib/ssl/include/',
'/usr/include/'
]
ssl_incs = find_file('openssl/ssl.h', inc_dirs,
search_for_ssl_incs_in
)

I have solved this problem on Ubuntu-16.04.1.
First you need to install necessary libraries. To install open Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), then type;
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev
After that go the directory where your python file is then reconfigure and reinstall python3.6 .
cd /opt/Python3.6/
./configure
make
sudo make install
NOTE
If you installed Python3.6 via ppa, then reinstall it again;
sudo apt-get install python3.6
Now you should be able to use pip3.6

I ran into the same error when building Python 3.6.1 from source under CentOS 7.
For CentOS7, I had to first:
sudo yum install openssl-dev
Then:
./configure --enable-optimizations
make altinstall
Now pip3.6 works :-)

A complete script can be found HERE
Install Prerequisites
For RHEL/CentOS
sudo yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ zlib zlib-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel wget
For Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential python-dev python-setuptools python-pip
python-smbus libncursesw5-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev
tk-dev libssl-dev openssl libffi-dev wget
Download Python
Modify for the version of python you want
Python Versions
cd /var/tmp
sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.x.x/Python-x.x.x.tgz
sudo tar xf Python-3.*.tgz
cd Python-3*
Configure/Make/Install
sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make && make altinstall
Cleanup Shared Library & Add to Path
Stripping the shared library of debugging symbols can speed up execution when running parallel scripts.
sudo make && make altinstall
sudo strip /usr/local/lib/libpython3.7m.so.1.0
sudo echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/lib' >> /etc/profile.d/python.sh
sudo echo 'export PATH=${PATH}:~/usr/local/bin/' >> /etc/profile.d/python.sh
sudo echo '/usr/local/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf
sudo ldconfig
Reference
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Stack Overflow
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Unix StackExchange
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Properly install sqlite3 with FTS5 support

I'm developing a Python tool which uses a sqlite3 virtual table with FTS5 (Full Text Search). I would like to know how to properly install from a tarball (or any other means) the needed requirements for my tool to work so I can pack them for portability.
Currently, I managed to install the latest release tarball of sqlite. However, when I execute:
python3 -c "import sqlite3; print(sqlite3.sqlite_version)"
# or
python2 -c "import sqlite3; print(sqlite3.sqlite_version)"
I get 3.11.0, while sqlite3 --version returns: 3.22.0 2018-01-22 18:45:57 0c55d179733b46d8d0ba4d88e01a25e10677046ee3da1d5b1581e86726f2alt1
The system version sqlite3 3.22 does support FTS5, as I do pragma compile_options; and get:
COMPILER=gcc-5.4.0 20160609
ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB
ENABLE_FTS4
**ENABLE_FTS5**
ENABLE_JSON1
ENABLE_RTREE
ENABLE_STMTVTAB
ENABLE_UNKNOWN_SQL_FUNCTION
HAVE_ISNAN
THREADSAFE=1
But, the python version, using this script returns this:
[(u'ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA',), (u'ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB',), (u'ENABLE_FTS3',), (u'ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS',), (u'ENABLE_JSON1',), (u'ENABLE_LOAD_EXTENSION',), (u'ENABLE_RTREE',), (u'ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY',), (u'ENABLE_UPDATE_DELETE_LIMIT',), (u'HAVE_ISNAN',), (u'LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS',), (u'MAX_SCHEMA_RETRY=25',), (u'OMIT_LOOKASIDE',), (u'SECURE_DELETE',), (u'SOUNDEX',), (u'SYSTEM_MALLOC',), (u'TEMP_STORE=1',), (u'THREADSAFE=1',)]
Hence, my questions are:
Is there any way I could make a linux portable package for my app
with sqlite3 FTS5 support in both python and linux system?
Is there any way to link the python module sqlite3 to an specific
sqlite3 path?
I tried all of this in an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but I would like to work as well on CentOS 7.
Thank you very much in advance.
More details about the installation from the tarball that I did:
wget "https://www.sqlite.org/src/tarball/sqlite.tar.gz?r=release" -O sqlite.tar.gz
tar -xzvf sqlite.tar.gz
cd sqlite
./configure --enable-fts5
make
sudo make install

The easy way is to use apsw (Another Python SQLite Wrapper). Its API is just a little different from sqlite3 and you can't just pip-install it (unless you're okay with outdated version), but the rest is good and you can have the most recent features of SQLite.
wget https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw/releases/download/3.22.0-r1/apsw-3.22.0-r1.zip
unzip apsw-3.22.0-r1.zip
cd apsw-3.22.0-r1
python setup.py fetch --sqlite build --enable-all-extensions install
Then,
import apsw
apsw.Connection(':memory:').cursor().execute('pragma compile_options').fetchall()
Returns:
[('COMPILER=gcc-5.4.0 20160609',),
('ENABLE_API_ARMOR',),
('ENABLE_FTS3',),
('ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS',),
('ENABLE_FTS4',),
('ENABLE_FTS5',),
('ENABLE_ICU',),
('ENABLE_JSON1',),
('ENABLE_RBU',),
('ENABLE_RTREE',),
('ENABLE_STAT4',),
('THREADSAFE=1',)]
The hard way is to compile Python with custom SQLite. More detail in this article by Charles Leifer.

I think is a linking problem! I followed the same install steps with you and got the same results:
$ python ./test.py
[(u'ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA',), (u'ENABLE_FTS3',), (u'ENABLE_RTREE',), (u'ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY',), (u'ENABLE_UPDATE_DELETE_LIMIT',), (u'MAX_SCHEMA_RETRY=25',), (u'OMIT_LOOKASIDE',), (u'SECURE_DELETE',), (u'SOUNDEX',), (u'SYSTEM_MALLOC',), (u'TEMP_STORE=1',), (u'THREADSAFE=1',)]
NO
However, when you install something by configure/make/make install on Linux, it usually goes in /usr/local/lib. To make sure that python links on runtime against the correct .so I used LD_LIBRARY_PATH. In this case I got:
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib python ./test.py
[(u'COMPILER=gcc-4.8.5',), (u'ENABLE_FTS5',), (u'HAVE_ISNAN',), (u'TEMP_STORE=1',), (u'THREADSAFE=1',)]
YES
Additionally, when installing libraries, you might have to update ldconfig. On my system (Ubuntu 14.04):
$ sudo ldconfig
$ python ./test.py
[(u'COMPILER=gcc-4.8.5',), (u'ENABLE_FTS5',), (u'HAVE_ISNAN',), (u'TEMP_STORE=1',), (u'THREADSAFE=1',)]
YES
Notice that using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not needed any more and python links against the correct lib. For this to happen you will need to have /usr/local/lib folder in your ld.so.conf somewhere... for me this is in:
$ grep -ir local /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf:/usr/local/lib

Thank you for your answers #urban and #saaj. I found your answers constructive.
The problem I see to #saaj answer is that it requires extra packages, specifically apsw package, which is not compatible with pypy, for example. I could not manage to make it work, but may be my fault.
I really like #urban answer. I did the process and got it working. I marked this answer as correct.
However I would like to add my own answer. Is quite aggressive but it worked for me. I created an Ubuntu docker with the following Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu:16.04
RUN apt-get update -y
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true apt-get install -y apt-utils tzdata
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
RUN echo "Europe/Berlin" > /etc/timezone
RUN dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
RUN apt-get update -y
RUN apt-get install -y git build-essential sudo
Afterwards, inside the Ubuntu docker I did. In the process I remove sqlite3 and installed its dependencies, that I found in the following article. Afterwards I reinstalled python.
sudo apt-get update -y
echo "[ - Removing sqlite3... ]"
sudo apt-get remove -y sqlite3
sudo apt-get purge -y sqlite3
echo "[ - Installing sqlite3 dependencies... ]"
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential bzip2 git libbz2-dev libc6-dev libgdbm-dev libgeos-dev liblz-dev liblzma-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6 libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev lzma-dev python-dev python-pip python-software-properties python-virtualenv software-properties-common sqlite3 tcl tk-dev tk8.5-dev wget
echo "[ - Installing sqlite3... ]"
sudo wget "https://www.sqlite.org/src/tarball/sqlite.tar.gz?r=release" -O sqlite.tar.gz &> /dev/null
sudo tar -xzvf sqlite.tar.gz
cd sqlite
sudo ./configure --enable-fts5
sudo make
sudo make install
cd ..
echo "[ - Reinstalling python... ]"
sudo apt-get remove -y python python3 python-dev
sudo apt-get install -y --reinstall python2.7 python3 python-dev
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential bzip2 git libbz2-dev libc6-dev libgdbm-dev libgeos-dev liblz-dev liblzma-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6 libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev lzma-dev python-dev python-pip python-software-properties python-virtualenv software-properties-common sqlite3 tcl tk-dev tk8.5-dev wget

Python: How can I install a python module into a certain folder and import it

I want to import the Pillow module. But I have to install it just into the folder of the script which is using it.
I tried to set a search path and import it:
sWorkDir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
print (sWorkDir)
sys.path.append(sWorkDir+"\\PIL_LOC")
sys.path.append(sWorkDir+"\\PIL_LOC\PIL")
import Image
Unfortunately, I get a
from . import VERSION, PILLOW_VERSION, _plugins
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

Since I can't make a comment under your original post, I'll make it like an answer.
I've found this, try to see if it works for you!
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-setuptools
$ sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev \
libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev python-tk
$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
$ sudo pip3 install Pillow
$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/display /usr/bin/xv
Then in the python3.4 interactive shell enter:
from PIL import Image
im = Image.open("someimage.jpg")
im.show()
Credits goes to: Using Pillow with Python 3

How to install GSSAPI Python module?

I am trying to install the GSSAPI module through pip but I receive this error that I don't know how to resolve.
Could not find main GSSAPI shared library. Please try setting
GSSAPI_MAIN_LIB yourself or setting ENABLE_SUPPORT_DETECTION to
'false'
I need this to work on Python 2.6 for LDAP3 authentication.

Summary, for the impatient
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/krb5-config.mit /usr/bin/krb5-config
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip libkrb5-dev
$ sudo pip install gssapi
And now the details...
I have a Debian system that uses Heimdal Kerberos. I'll take you through what I had to do to get it working for me. Hopefully, this can help someone else as well.
Problem 1 - krb5-config: command not found
setup.py for gssapi uses the krb5-config command to find the GSSAPI library to link against (see here). Because my system was installed using Heimdal instead of MIT Kerberos, the executable command has been renamed to krb5-config.mit so setup.py misses it.
$ krb5-config --libs gssapi # doesn't work
bash: krb5-config: command not found
I created a symlink to get it to work for the install:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/krb5-config.mit /usr/bin/krb5-config
$ krb5-config --libs gssapi # does work
-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mit-krb5 -Wl,-z,relro -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err
Problem 2 - libgssapi_krb5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
setup.py is looking in /usr/lib for the gssapi library to link against. In Debian Jesse, most libs are now kept in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Again, a symlink can fix this:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so
Problem 3 - error: unknown type name ‘gss_key_value_set_desc’
The build fails because it does not recognize a symbol in the library. The reason for this is that it was not able to get the right header file. Silly me, I forgot to include the -dev package for krb5 headers. Fix this with apt-get:
$ sudo apt-get install libkrb5-dev
Finally - Install gssapi
Now we should be all ready to go.
$ sudo pip install gssapi
If you want to tidy up, you can remove the symlink to the krb5-config.mit command:
$ sudo rm /usr/bin/krb5-config

sudo apt install libkrb5-dev
actually installs /usr/bin/krb5-config and /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so
so none of the symlinking was needed, just install libkrb5-dev and you should be good.

For me, the issue got resolved after installing the package "krb5-libs" in Centos.
Basically we need to have libgssapi_krb5.so file for installing gssapi.

Compiling Python 2.6.6 and need for external packages wxPython, setuptools, etc... in Ubuntu

I compiled Python 2.6.6 with google-perf tools (tcmalloc) library to eliminate some of the memory issues I was having with the default 2.6.5. After getting 2.6.6 going it seems to not work becuase I think having issues with the default 2.6.5 install in Ubuntu. Will none of the binaries installed from the software channel like wxPython and setuptools work properly with 2.6.6. Do these need to be recompiled? Any other suggestions to get it working smoothly. Can I still set 2.6.5 as default without changing the Path? The path looks in usr/local/bin first.

A good general rule of thumb is to NEVER use the default system installed Python for any software development beyond miscellaneous system admin scripts. This applies on all UNIXes including Linux and OS/X.
Instead, build a good Python distro that you control, with the libraries (Python and C) that you need, and install this tarball in a non-system directory such as /opt/devpy or /data/package/python or /home/python. And why mess with 2.6 when 2.7.2 is available?
And when you are building it, make sure that all of its dependencies are in its own directory tree (RPATH) and that any system dependencies (.so files) are copied into its directory tree. Here is my version. It might not work if you just run the whole shell script. I always copy and paste sections of this into a terminal window and verify that each step worked OK. Make sure your terminal properties are set to allow lots of lines of scrollback, or only paste a couple of lines at a time.
(actually, after making a few tweaks I think this may be runnable as a script, however I would recommend something like ./pybuild.sh >pylog 2>&1 so you can comb through the output and verify that everything built OK.
This was built on Ubuntu 64 bit
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s compat40
export WGET=echo
#uncomment the following if you are running for the first time
export WGET=wget
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get -y install zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libssl-dev libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libreadline6-dev autotools-dev autoconf automake libtool
sudo apt-get -y install libsvn-dev mercurial subversion git-core
sudo apt-get -y install libbz2-dev libgdbm-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
sudo apt-get -y install curl libcurl4-gnutls-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libevent-dev libev-dev librrd4 rrdtool
sudo apt-get -y install uuid-dev libdb4.8-dev memcached libmemcached-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libmysqlclient-dev libexpat1-dev
cd ~
$WGET 'http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/downloads/detail?name=google-perftools-1.7.tar.gz'
$WGET http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tgz
tar zxvf Python-2.7.2.tgz
cd Python-2.7.2
#following is needed if you have an old version of Mercurial installed
#export HAS_HG=not-found
# To provide a uniform build environment
unset PYTHONPATH PYTHONSTARTUP PYTHONHOME PYTHONCASEOK PYTHONIOENCODING
unset LD_RUN_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_DEBUG LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
unset LD_PRELOAD SHLIB_PATH LD_BIND_NOW LD_VERBOSE
## figure out whether this is a 32 bit or 64 bit system
m=`uname -m`
if [[ $m =~ .*64 ]]; then
export CC="gcc -m64"
NBITS=64
elif [[ $m =~ .*86 ]]; then
export CC="gcc -m32"
NBITS=32
else # we are confused so bail out
echo $m
exit 1
fi
# some stuff related to distro independent build
# extra_link_args = ['-Wl,-R/data1/python27/lib']
#--enable-shared and a relative
# RPATH[0] (eg LD_RUN_PATH='${ORIGIN}/../lib')
export TARG=/data1/packages/python272
export TCMALLOC_SKIP_SBRK=true
#export CFLAGS='-ltcmalloc' # Google's fast malloc
export COMMONLDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,\$$ORIGIN/../lib -Wl,-rpath-link,\$$ORIGIN:\$$ORIGIN/../lib:\$$ORIGIN/../../lib -Wl,-z,origin -Wl,--enable-new-dtags'
# -Wl,-dynamic-linker,$TARG/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
export LDFLAGS=$COMMONLDFLAGS
./configure --prefix=$TARG --with-dbmliborder=bdb:gdbm --enable-shared --enable-ipv6
# if you have ia32-libs installed on a 64-bit system
#export COMMONLDFLAGS="-L/lib32 -L/usr/lib32 -L`pwd`/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,$TARG/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,$TARG/usr/lib32"
make
# ignore failure to build the following since they are obsolete or deprecated
# _tkinter bsddb185 dl imageop sunaudiodev
#install it and collect any dependency libraries - not needed with RPATH
sudo mkdir -p $TARG
sudo chown `whoami`.users $TARG
make install
# collect binary libraries ##REDO THIS IF YOU ADD ANY ADDITIONAL MODULES##
function collect_binary_libs {
cd $TARG
find . -name '*.so' | sed 's/^/ldd -v /' >elffiles
echo "ldd -v bin/python" >>elffiles
chmod +x elffiles
./elffiles | sed 's/.*=> //;s/ .*//;/:$/d;s/^ *//' | sort -u | sed 's/.*/cp -L & lib/' >lddinfo
# mkdir lib
chmod +x lddinfo
./lddinfo
cd ~
}
collect_binary_libs
#set the path
cd ~
export PATH=$TARG/bin:$PATH
#installed setuptools
$WGET http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
chmod +x setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
./setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
#installed virtualenv
tar zxvf virtualenv-1.6.1.tar.gz
cd virtualenv-1.6.1
python setup.py install
cd ~
# created a base virtualenv that should work for almost all projects
# we make it relocatable in case its location in the filesystem changes.
cd ~
python virtualenv-1.6.1/virtualenv.py /data1/py27base # first make it
python virtualenv-1.6.1/virtualenv.py --relocatable /data1/py27base #then relocatabilize
# check it out
source ~/junk/bin/activate
python --version
# fill the virtualenv with useful modules
# watch out for binary builds that may have dependency problems
export LD_RUN_PATH='\$$ORIGIN:\$$ORIGIN/../lib:\$$ORIGIN/../../lib'
easy_install pip
pip install cython
pip install lxml
pip install httplib2
pip install python-memcached
pip install amqplib
pip install kombu
pip install carrot
pip install py_eventsocket
pip install haigha
# extra escaping of $ signs
export LDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,\$\$$ORIGIN/../lib:\$\$$ORIGIN/../../lib -Wl,-rpath-link,\$\$$ORIGIN/../lib -Wl,-z,origin -Wl,--enable-new-dtags'
# even more complex to build this one since we need some autotools and
# have to pull source from a repository
mkdir rabbitc
cd rabbitc
hg clone http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-codegen/
hg clone http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c/
cd rabbitmq-c
autoreconf -i
make clean
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ~
# for zeromq we get the latest source of the library
$WGET http://download.zeromq.org/zeromq-2.1.7.tar.gz
tar zxvf zeromq-2.1.7.tar.gz
cd zeromq-2.1.7
make clean
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ~
# need less escaping of $ signs
export LDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,\$ORIGIN/../lib:\$ORIGIN/../../lib -Wl,-rpath-link,\$ORIGIN/../lib -Wl,-z,origin -Wl,--enable-new-dtags'
pip install pyzmq
pip install pylibrabbitmq # need to build C library and install first
pip install pylibmc
pip install pycurl
export LDFLAGS=$COMMONLDFLAGS
pip install cherrypy
pip install pyopenssl # might need some ldflags on this one?
pip install diesel
pip install eventlet
pip install fapws3
pip install gevent
pip install boto
pip install jinja2
pip install mako
pip install paste
pip install twisted
pip install flup
pip install pika
pip install pymysql
# pip install py-rrdtool # not on 64 bit???
pip install PyRRD
pip install tornado
pip install redis
# for tokyocabinet we need the latest source of the library
$WGET http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet-1.4.47.tar.gz
tar zxvf tokyocabinet-1.4.47.tar.gz
cd tokyocabinet-1.4.47
make clean
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-devel
make
sudo make install
cd ..
$WGET http://fallabs.com/tokyotyrant/tokyotyrant-1.1.41.tar.gz
tar zxvf tokyotyrant-1.1.41.tar.gz
cd tokyotyrant-1.1.41
make clean
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-devel
make
sudo make install
cd ..
pip install tokyo-python
pip install solrpy
pip install pysolr
pip install sunburnt
pip install txamqp
pip install littlechef
pip install PyChef
pip install pyvb
pip install bottle
pip install werkzeug
pip install BeautifulSoup
pip install XSLTools
pip install numpy
pip install coverage
pip install pylint
# pip install PyChecker ???
pip install pycallgraph
pip install mkcode
pip install pydot
pip install sqlalchemy
pip install buzhug
pip install flask
pip install restez
pip install pytz
pip install mcdict
# need less escaping of $ signs
pip install py-interface
# pip install paramiko # pulled in by another module
pip install pexpect
# SVN interface
$WGET http://pysvn.barrys-emacs.org/source_kits/pysvn-1.7.5.tar.gz
tar zxvf pysvn-1.7.5.tar.gz
cd pysvn-1.7.5/Source
python setup.py backport
python setup.py configure
make
cd ../Tests
make
cd ../Sources
mkdir -p $TARG/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pysvn
cp pysvn/__init__.py $TARG/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pysvn
cp pysvn/_pysvn_2_7.so $TARG/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pysvn
cd ~
# pip install protobuf #we have to do this the hard way
$WGET http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.4.1.zip
unzip protobuf-2.4.1.zip
cd protobuf-2.4.1
make clean
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd python
python setup.py install
cd ~
pip install riak
pip install ptrace
pip install html5lib
pip install metrics
#redo the "install binary libraries" step
collect_binary_libs
# link binaries in the lib directory to avoid search path errors and also
# to reduce the number of false starts to find the library
for i in `ls $TARG/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/*.so`
do
ln -f $i $TARG/lib/`basename $i`
done
# for the same reason link the whole lib directory to some other places in the tree
ln -s ../.. $TARG/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lib
# bundle it up and save it for packaging
cd /
tar cvf - .$TARG |gzip >~/py272-$NBITS.tar.gz
cd ~
# after untarring on another machine, we have a program call imports.py which imports
# every library as a quick check that it works. For a more positive check, run it like this
# strace -e trace=stat,fstat,open python imports.py >strace.txt 2>&1
# grep -v ' = -1' strace.txt |grep 'open(' >opens.txt
# sed <opens.txt 's/^open("//;s/".*//' |sort -u |grep -v 'dynload' |grep '\.so' >straced.txt
# ls -1d /data1/packages/python272/lib/* |sort -u >lib.txt
# then examine the strace output to see how many places it searches before finding it.
# a successful library load will be a call to open that doesn't end with ' = -1'
# If it takes too many tries to find a particular library, then another symbolic link may
# be a good idea

I'm pretty sure you have to compile wxPython to the version of Python that you want to use it with. That's always been the case with anyone else who has done something like this on the wxPython mailing list. I think that applies to most packages and especially so if they have any C/C++ components, like wxPython does. Pure Python packages can sometimes be transferred from one version to the next intact in my experience.
There are fairly extensive wxPython build instructions here: http://wxpython.org/BUILD-2.8.html
Robin Dunn and others on the wxPython mailing list are very helpful if you run into any problems.

If you compiled 2.6.6 and installed 2.6.5 from the repos, then ubuntu is having a conflict in finding what python you're using.
I'm flagging this to move to Superuser.