ImportError: No module named '_bz2'

Question

I am trying to run Python3 application in linux server. Application breaks when it tries to use Pandas library. I have tried the solution in No module named '_bz2' in python3 But it gives me No package libbz2-dev available. And also this solution missing python bz2 module Could you please help me with this.

Python environment is,

• OS Name - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
• Version - 7.7 (Maipo)
• Python - 3.5.6
• Pandas - 0.25.3
• python-dateutil==2.8.1
• pytz==2019.1
• six==1.14.0
• numpy==1.18.1

Thanks

Answer 1

Probably as you built python from source, you don't have bz2 headers.

Install them on Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev

centos\Fedora:

sudo yum install bzip2-devel

And build python again.