After compiling Python 2.7.5 you may find yourself being unable to to import sqlite3 and receiving the following error message,
ImportError: No module named _sqlite3
Solution
- Install sqlite-devel via ‘yum install sqlite-devel’
- Recompile Python.
Note : Details on how to compile Python can be found within the following article.
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