# Python module import errors on devel, Ubuntu 16.04

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**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [September 27, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/python-module-import-errors-on-devel-ubuntu-16-04/22654 "2016-09-27T17:26:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/python-module-import-errors-on-devel-ubuntu-16-04/22654/1 "2016-09-27T17:26:22Z")

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I was looking to start work on a new module, start writing tests, after rebase-ing devel I’m now getting an error when trying to run Ansible from source on Ubuntu 16.04. This error has only started occurring in the past week, I’ve run from devel previously to test other modules on this same host. I do have a deb install of ansible on this machine also, but haven’t had any problems in the past running a source version of ansible.

stephen@computer:~/workspace/ansible$ git submodule update --init --recursive  
stephen@computer:~/workspace/ansible$ source hacking/env-setup  
running egg\_info  
creating lib/ansible.egg-info  
writing requirements to lib/ansible.egg-info/requires.txt  
writing lib/ansible.egg-info/PKG-INFO  
writing top-level names to lib/ansible.egg-info/top\_level.txt  
writing dependency\_links to lib/ansible.egg-info/dependency\_links.txt  
writing manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’  
reading manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’  
reading manifest template ‘MANIFEST.in’  
no previously-included directories found matching ‘v2’  
no previously-included directories found matching ‘docsite’  
no previously-included directories found matching ‘ticket\_stubs’  
no previously-included directories found matching ‘packaging’  
no previously-included directories found matching ‘test’  
no previously-included directories found matching ‘hacking’  
no previously-included directories found matching ‘lib/ansible/modules/core/.git’  
no previously-included directories found matching ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras/.git’  
writing manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’

Setting up Ansible to run out of checkout…

PATH=/home/stephen/workspace/ansible/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin  
PYTHONPATH=/home/stephen/workspace/ansible/lib:  
MANPATH=/home/stephen/workspace/ansible/docs/man:

Remember, you may wish to specify your host file with -i

Done!

stephen@computer:~/workspace/ansible$ ansible --version  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/home/stephen/workspace/ansible/bin/ansible”, line 46, in   
from ansible.module\_utils.\_text import to\_text  
ImportError: No module named \_text  
stephen@computer:~/workspace/ansible$ which ansible  
/home/stephen/workspace/ansible/bin/ansible

stephen@computer:~/workspace/ansible$ echo $PYTHONPATH  
/home/stephen/workspace/ansible/lib:

Thanks @agaffney for your help, pity about the freenode ddos.

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16435](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16435) I came across this bug, put I don’t think that’s the issue.

line 46 in bin/ansible  
from ansible.module\_utils.\_text import to\_text

I attempted then to try importing modules from the python interpreter,  
stephen@computer:~/workspace/ansible$ python  
Python 2.7.12 (default, Jul 1 2016, 15:12:24)  
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2  
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.

> > > from ansible.utils.display import Display  
> > > import itertools  
> > > from ansible.module\_utils.basic import AnsibleModule  
> > > from ansible.module\_utils.basic import env\_fallback, get\_exception  
> > > from ansible.module\_utils.netcli import Cli, Command  
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):  
> > > File “”, line 1, in   
> > > ImportError: No module named netcli  
> > > from ansible.module\_utils.netcfg import Config  
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):  
> > > File “”, line 1, in   
> > > ImportError: cannot import name Config  
> > > from ansible.module\_utils.basic import BOOLEANS\_TRUE, BOOLEANS\_FALSE  
> > > from ansible.module\_utils.six import string\_types, text\_type  
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):  
> > > File “”, line 1, in   
> > > ImportError: No module named six  
> > > from ansible.module\_utils.six.moves import zip  
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):  
> > > File “”, line 1, in   
> > > ImportError: No module named six.moves  
> > > import operator  
> > > import sys  
> > > import six  
> > > import ansible.module\_utils.six  
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):  
> > > File “”, line 1, in   
> > > ImportError: No module named six  
> > > import ansible.module\_utils.ec2

I’m not a python programmer and may just be looking at this the wrong way.