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FS#66234 - [python] Can't import ctypes

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Cedric Bellegarde (gnumdk) - Sunday, 12 April 2020, 23:03 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Sunday, 12 April 2020, 23:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

$ python
Python 3.8.2 (default, Mar 7 2020, 23:00:54)
[GCC 9.2.1 20200130] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ctypes
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ctypes/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ pacman -Q python
python 3.8.2-2
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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Sunday, 12 April 2020, 23:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Cedric Bellegarde (gnumdk) - Sunday, 12 April 2020, 23:15 GMT
Oops, sorry for noise, just found that my server rebuilding some ArchLinux packages with debug symbolc failed for python3 last night. And it just worked magically so I get the update fixiing the issue.

Need to read my emails (got a mail about this failure).

Really sorry.

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