No module named _sysconfigdata_nd

Question

This issue came up for me when I installed Gundo Vim plugin.

I found many posts about No module named _sysconfigdata_nd, but all of them (like this one) refer to a bug in the Ubuntu package, and suggest making a symbolic link like this:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/plat-*/_sysconfigdata_nd.py /usr/lib/python2.7/

This, however, is not applicable for me, as I'm using Python that I compiled myself.

Per suggestion here, I did

sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv

which created this directory

.../lib/python2.7/plat-linux2/

but there is no _sysconfigdata_nd.py in it.

In my .../lib/python2.7/ I have _sysconfigdata.py but no _sysconfigdata_nd.py.

I've not been able to find any further leads.

Answer 1

I was going through the same problem. I installed anaconda python and by mistake removed stock python. Then No module named _sysconfigdata_nd error started coming even though I explicitly pointed /usr/bin/python to anaconda python. I also tried all the methods that you have done but failed. So I downloaded stock python from official source and installed it. Even after installing python and pointing /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.7 using update-alternatives it started giving me the same error but when I invoke /usr/bin/python it works fine so i created an alias for python like this alias python=/usr/bin/python and added it to my .bashrc file and now it is working fine. I recommend you to try the same. If you want to export the alias python globally. You can add it in /eyc/bin/bash.bashrc which will be applied to all users by default.