Python module import errors on devel, Ubuntu 16.04

[Stephen Granger]

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 <module>

    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 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 "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ImportError: No module named netcli

>>> from ansible.module_utils.netcfg import Config

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

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 "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ImportError: No module named six

>>> from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import zip

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ImportError: No module named six.moves

>>> import operator

>>> import sys

>>> import six

>>> import ansible.module_utils.six

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

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. 

-- 

Steve