[Answered] Python - No Support For Json 'import'?

[Zephyer]

Hello. i tried to run some basic python cgi files, which worked perfectly, with some imports. however, when i try to 'import json' or 'import simplejson', i get error 500 - internal server error. json is supposed to be baseline. am i missing something? what is wrong?

 

Thanks!

 

edit: link to screenshot of error: json module not found

http://i.imgur.com/zIk69vp.jpg

[Krydos]

What server is your account located on, and which version of python are you using?

[Shinryuu]

The answer to this answers the problem thoroughly.

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14221360/why-is-import-simplejson-failing-in-python-2-7-3-code-but-not-in-the-interpre

[Zephyer]

Shinryuu - json doesnt work as well, not just simplejson

 

Krydos - im on Johnny server. on my machine im using python 2.7. maybe its not the version the server is running? can i set it to be 2.7?

 

thank you both for the replies

[Shinryuu]

As the SO answer stated json didn't become a standard internal module until 2.6+. By default cPanel comes with 2.4.3, so

#!/usr/bin/python

will give that error. While

#!/usr/local/bin/python2.7

will work fine.

[Zephyer]

Shinryuu - i did not know how to check which version cpanel uses, silly me. thank you so much for your help, it works now

[Krydos]

Unfortunately, python is heavily tied to cPanel, so if we upgrade the default version of python it could break a lot of other functionality. The good news is that multiple versions of python can coexist easily on the same server without interfering with each other; you just use different shebang lines to access the version that you need.