jenkins python module import error

Question

I have installed jenkins module in the VM but still not able import the module and use.

Python 2.7.5 (default, Jun 17 2014, 18:11:42) [GCC 4.8.2 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-16)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import jenkins
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/jenkins.py", line 9, in <module>
lookup3 = cdll.LoadLibrary(os.path.join(get_python_lib(), "lookup3.so"))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 438, in LoadLibrary
return self._dlltype(name)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 360, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lookup3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Answer 1

Have you installed jenkins by this command?

pip install jenkins

if yes you should try to install it with

pip install python-jenkins

Ref: Bug

Answer 2

This is already answered by Daniel Salinas (imsplitbit) on lunchpad at bug in jenkins lib

Close this bug, it appears pip was installing jenkins 1.0.2 not python-jenkins 0.2 which is actually used. These two modules use the same module namespace so it may be valuable to change that some how or even just add python-jenkins to the pip-requires so that this isn't an issue to begin with.