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No module named configparser

If launching bpython fails with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/bpython", line 7, in <module>
    from bpython.curtsies import main
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/bpython/curtsies.py", line 14, in <module>
    from bpython.curtsiesfrontend.repl import Repl
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/bpython/curtsiesfrontend/repl.py", line 32, in <module>
    from bpython.config import (Struct, loadini, default_config_path,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/bpython/config.py", line 9, in <module>
    from six.moves.configparser import ConfigParser
ImportError: No module named configparser

there is an old six (pre 1.5) version in sys.path that gets loaded instead of the correct one. Make sure a new enough six version is placed in sys.path.

This issue seems to be Mac OS X specific. In issue 494 it was mentioned that the following entry in ~/.bashrc fixes the issue:

export PYTHONPATH=/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/:$PYTHONPATH

Upload failed: hostname 'bpaste.net' doesn't match either of '*.qabana.nl', 'qabana.nl'

This issues is caused by missing SNI support in Python respectively requests. There are two possible fixes for this issue:

Upgrade to Python 2.7.7 or newer.
Make sure that pyOpenSSL, pyasn1, and ndg-httpsclient are installed.

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: ndg-httpsclient

If launching bpython fails with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/bpython-26/bin/bpython", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/tmp/bpython-26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2829, in <module>
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/tmp/bpython-26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 449, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "/tmp/bpython-26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 742, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/tmp/bpython-26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 639, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: ndg-httpsclient

after a successful install, something went wrong during the installation of the dependencies (i.e. they were not correctly resolved). Installing the pyOpenSSL, pyasn1 and ndg-httpsclient manually should resolve this issue.

This issue has been observed with old Python (2.6.X) and pip versions and it should not be present in newer versions.

Building cffi fails to build on Mac OS X

If you have problems installing cffi which is needed by pyOpenSSL, please take a look at cffi's documentation.

<F1> does not work in GNOME terminal

By default GNOME terminal does not forward <F1> to the application. This can be fixed by removing the <F1> key binding in GNOME terminal.