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ImportError: Twisted requires zope.interface 3.6.0 or later: actually it have been installed

I use OSX 10.9 + Kivy 1.9.1, but I have two versions of Python, Mac OSX self-contained 2.7.5 and another standalone 2.7.9 installed. Here are the details:
MacBook-Air:wzy$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Mar 9 2014, 22:15:05)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
MacBook-Air:wzy$ python
Python 2.7.9 (v2.7.9:648dcafa7e5f, Dec 10 2014, 10:10:46)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
After having installed twisted with pip install twisted, I get the following error message in kivy with python 2.7.5, which does not happen in python 2.7.9
MacBook-Air:wzy$ kivy
>>> import twisted
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/twisted/__init__.py", line 53, in <module>
_checkRequirements()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/twisted/__init__.py", line 37, in _checkRequirements
raise ImportError(required + ": no module named zope.interface.")
ImportError: Twisted requires zope.interface 3.6.0 or later: no module named zope.interface.
MacBook-Air:wzy$ python
>>> import twisted
>>> exit()
I have even installed zope.interface several times and dedicate install target directory as one of the sys.path of kivy environment.
I do believe this is two version co-exist related, but how can I fix this?

When you do pip install twisted, you are installing Twisted into some Python environment, depending on which python executable you are invoking pip with. If you have a 2.7.5 environment and a 2.7.9 environment, pip install might be putting Twisted in a different place for each, depending on what other options you passed to pip. (You probably passed some other options to pip install because without privileges, by default, pip install will just fail. Did you do sudo pip install perhaps? Did you do pip install as an admin user into a homebrewed Python?)
The right way to do this is to only ever install Twisted into virtual environments. You can create a virtual environment with the -p option to virtualenv, which tells it which Python to use for that environment. Then, with the correct virtual environment active, you can pip install twisted and everything should work as you expect.

I had the same import error problem, providing another possible solution here:
I have zope.interface 4.4.2 installed, it turned out that my twisted version is too old. By upgrade twisted solved my problem.
pip install --upgrade twisted

Thanks Glyph,
Finally I find following simple command could directly fix this problem, because Kivy use his own virtualenv environment, but I do appreciated your kindly help.
kivy -m pip install twisted
Best Wish to you,

Mapnik Install: CentOS

The problem:
I've installed mapnik 3.0.1 successfully by running the typical source code install:
./configure
make && make install
ldconfig -v
However....
When I import mapnik into python I get the following:
Python 2.7.5 (default, Jun 24 2015, 00:41:19)
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mapnik
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named mapnik
>>>
I've tried everything recommended on Mapnik's Troubleshooting page by linking library paths, editing ld.so.conf, etc...
I've been trying to figure this out all day, which isn't very productive. I've tried building other versions of mapnik, and the same thing happens. How do I get this imported???
Thanks in advance.

Yea, you need the python bindings, which is a separate thing. As you mentioned they are actually included with mapnik 3.0 but you still haven't registered them (python doesn't know where they are). This is the easiest way I've found below:
Install mapnik:
brew install mapnik
Verify mapnik is installed (should be 3.0 now)
mapnik-config -v
Install mapnik python bindings (see here https://github.com/mapnik/python-mapnik):
git clone git#github.com:mapnik/python-mapnik.git
cd python-mapnik
python setup.py install

Why is the PYTHONPATH different when running Python with and without sudo?

There's something wrong with my OSX system and python that no amount of googling has fixed. I've uninstalled all traces of python except the system python package with OSX that I'm not supposed to uninstall, and then started afresh with a new python from python.org, and installed pip.
Now...not sure if this particular behavior below is part of the issue, but it seems strange to me:
I ran python twice. Once with sudo and once without. Without sudo, I can't access pip. What's going on?
$ sudo /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
Python 2.7.9 (v2.7.9:648dcafa7e5f, Dec 10 2014, 10:10:46)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pip
However...
$ /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
Python 2.7.9 (v2.7.9:648dcafa7e5f, Dec 10 2014, 10:10:46)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pip
>>>
I've already referred to: sudo python runs old python version
I have nothing in my .bash_profile, or anything in any other profiles.
All I've done is the following:
export PYTHONPATH=/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
ls $PYTHONPATH returns:
_markerlib pip pkg_resources.pyc setuptools-8.0.1.dist-info virtualenv.pyc
easy_install.py pip-1.5.6.dist-info setuptools virtualenv-1.11.6.dist-info virtualenv_support
easy_install.pyc pkg_resources.py setuptools-7.0.dist-info virtualenv.py
which pip returns:
/bin/pip

sudo overrides your export. It's the same Python (as you can easily tell from the version information it prints) but it runs with a different (system default) PYTHONPATH.
This is one of the jobs of sudo; it sanitizes the environment to safe defaults. You may be able to tweak this, but the real question is, what are you trying to accomplish? If you need to run as root with a particular environment, set up a virtualenv and/or write a wrapper script which sets things up before dispatching Python.

What do you get when you compare the output of which pip and sudo which pip?
On my system I get different outputs. If you do, I'm not sure how to fix that, but you could try to force the sudo'd python to look in the correct directory:
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/lib/python2.7/site-packages/')
import pip

Python3 has no acces to python2 modules (ubuntu)

Im fairly new to programming and Ubuntu. Yesterday I finally managed to create a dual-boot system, so now I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
For a school project, I need to work in Python3 with a module called SPARQLWrapper (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SPARQLWrapper).
On my freshly installed Ubuntu, I've installed the latest version of Python. When I type "python3" in my terminal, python 3.2.3 starts so thats good.
I installed easy_install (sudo apt-get install python-setuptools), and downloaded and installed the SPARQLWrapper egg file (sudo easy_install SPARQLWrapper-1.5.2-py3.2).
If I run python2 and use "import SPARQLWrapper", it just works. But if I try the same in python3 it gives me the following error:
x#ubuntu:~$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 20:10:41)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import SPARQLWrapper
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named SPARQLWrapper
So my problem is that python3 isn't able to acces the same modules as my python2. How do I fix this?
Thanks!

To install packages for Python3, you need python3's setuptools.
Following are the steps to be followed to install python3's setuptools and SPARQLWrapper
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo easy_install3 pip
pip -V This should show the pip corresponding to your python3 installation.
sudo pip install SPARQLWrapper
After doing the above mentioned steps, I get this
~$ python3
Python 3.3.1 (default, Apr 17 2013, 22:30:32)
[GCC 4.7.3] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import SPARQLWrapper
>>> exit()
~$

Each Python installation has its own modules directory. In addition, Python 3 is not backwards compatible and won't generally run Python 2 code. You'll need to find a Python 3 version of the module you need and install it for Python 3.

Export libraries from python 2 from python 3

I am working with python 3. My problem is that each time I install a package, it installs it for python2.
For example, I want to use mapnik, so I've just installed it with homebrew, and then it created a folder for python2.7 in mapnik lib.
So it works when I use Python2.7 but not with python3, cause it cannot find the module mapnik.
How can I add it to python 3 ?
python3 path : /Users/gabrielgautron/documents/python3
At the end of mapnik's installation I have the following :
For non-homebrew Python, you need to amend your PYTHONPATH like so:
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
So I launch this command in terminal, and then :
MacBook-Pro-de-Gabriel-Gautron:local gabrielgautron$ python3
Python 3.2.4 (v3.2.4:1e10bdeabe3d, Apr 6 2013, 11:25:28)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mapnik
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mapnik/__init__.py", line 69, in <module>
from _mapnik import *
ImportError: No module named _mapnik
A idea ?
Please :)

Looking at the brew recipe, it depends on the version of python that's accessible when you run brew:
def which_python
"python" + `python -c 'import sys;print(sys.version[:3])'`.strip
end
So given that, you should change your PATH when invoking brew so that you're using python3 as python. For example:
# Figure out the path to python3
PY3DIR=`dirname $(which python3)`
# And /then/ install with brew. That will have it use python3 to get its path
PATH=$PY3DIR:$PATH brew install mapnik