Re: can't import ctype in python2

Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:32:12 +1000

On 02/12/10 15:22, 李永 wrote:
Hi, all

I can't run ibus-setup and can't see the ibus imput method pannel, after I
investgation, I find it is a python problem, when I run ibus-setup, I got
the following error:

$ ibus-setup
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/ibus/setup/main.py", line 31, in<module>
     import ibus
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ibus/__init__.py", line 26, in
<module>
     from common import *
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ibus/common.py", line 55, in
<module>
     import ctypes
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in<module>
     from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: No module named _ctypes

and I can't import ctype in python2 too,

$ python2
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Dec  1 2010, 13:45:43)
[GCC 4.5.1 20101125 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import ctypes
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in<module>
     from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: No module named _ctypes

do you meet the same probem, do I miss some package to install? any hint?
thanks .

Update to python-2.7.1-2

Allan