Install pysqlite in virtualenv with python3 support

Question

I've created virtualenv with:

mkvirtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.4 django

After, I tried install pysqlite:

pip install pysqlite

But I got:

Downloading/unpacking pysqlite
  Downloading pysqlite-2.6.3.tar.gz (76kB): 76kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/home/sigo/.virtualenvs/django/build/pysqlite/setup.py) egg_info for package pysqlite
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/home/sigo/.virtualenvs/django/build/pysqlite/setup.py", line 85
        print "Is sphinx installed? If not, try 'sudo easy_install sphinx'."
                                                                           ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/home/sigo/.virtualenvs/django/build/pysqlite/setup.py", line 85

    print "Is sphinx installed? If not, try 'sudo easy_install sphinx'."

                                                                       ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It seems that pip try use python2. How can I resolve this?

Answer 1

There is no public version of pysqlite for Python 3.x. For Python 3.x, the sqlite3 module in the standard library is the most up-to date version of pysqlite there is.

Answer 2

I'm following this procedure to include the JSON1 extension for SQLite.

When running the

python setup.py install

command for pysqlite within a virtual environment (miniconda) I receive the following output:

pysqlite is not supported on Python 3. When using Python 3, use the sqlite3 module from the standard library.

Setting

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/bin/jqlite/lib

doesn't change this.