Re: Python and Postgres error

Hello Ricardo,

Thanks - I ditched the prefab package and used slackbuilds. It's working
fine now.

Cheers,
Thomas

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Ricardo J. Barberis <[email protected]
> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Ricardo J. Barberis
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>



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