[Python-modules-team] Bug#843898: Something to try

[Tobias Hansen]

On 11/21/2016 01:57 AM, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:01:08 +0000,
> Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> $ ls -alh ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports/ total 12K
>>> drwxr-xr-x 3 sluque sluque 4.0K Oct 30 16:16 .  drwx------ 20 sluque
>>> sluque 4.0K Oct 30 16:18 ..  drwxr-xr-x 2 sluque sluque 4.0K Oct 30
>>> 16:16 configparser
> 
>> What happens if you rename that for a moment? Does it fix the problem?
> 
> No; same result.
> 

What do you get if you run this:
python -c "import sys; print sys.path"

What exactly did you try? Could you try renaming the whole folder
~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages ?