Re: Python and Postgres error

El Jueves 14/09/2017 a las 12:33, Thomas Altfather Good via slackware 
escribió:
> Shot in the dark here - anyone seen this error / know of a fix?
>
> After running a query in a python script:
>
> ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/_psycopg.so:
> undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF8
>
> Everything looks to be in the right place:
>
> ldd /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/_psycopg.so | grep libpq
>         libpq.so.5 => /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.5 (0x00007f2866b05000)
>
> ls -l /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.5
>      lrwxrwxrwx 1 postgres users 12 Feb  6  2017
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.5 -> libpq.so.5.9
>
> thanks!

I seem to remember Slackware's python being recompiled with a different 
unicode representation some time ago, this post sheds some light on the 
issue:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16871799/trying-to-import-a-module-undefined-symbol-pyunicodeucs4-decodeutf8#16872055


Basically, you have to recompile your python modules against the new python.

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