[Solved] No module named parse- python errors as own user

Question

A number of applications on my system (wicd and turpial, among others) return python errors when I run them as my own user. I can run these applications as root with no errors, so I'm not missing any packages. The most common of these errors, appearing when I run applications like turpial and hotot looks like this:
➤ turpial
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/turpial", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 17, in <module>
from urllib.parse import urlparse, urlunparse
ImportError: No module named parse
When I run wicd-curses:
➤ wicd-curses
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 44, in <module>
from dbus import DBusException
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/dbus/__init__.py", line 82, in <module>
import dbus.types as types
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/dbus/types.py", line 6, in <module>
from _dbus_bindings import (
ImportError: /usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/_dbus_bindings.so: undefined symbol: PyBytes_Type
Again, both applications mentioned here work fine when run as root. It should also be noted that I only installed turpial after already witnessing this error with hotot-gtk3-git. Has anyone seen this before, or have any idea how to start troubleshooting it?
Thanks.
EDIT: It was a Pythonpath issue.
Last edited by apurplermixture (2013-04-24 00:55:28)

Answer 1

Thank you! That worked