Importing psutil causes ImportError

Question

I'm trying to get psutil to work on our server. It is running AIX. There is no pip. So, I downloaded the repo from github(AIX build of psutil), cd into it, and ran Python CLI.

Now, trying to do import psutil causes an ImportError.

bash-4.2$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 16 2013, 14:02:06) [C] on aix6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import psutil
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "psutil/__init__.py", line 163, in <module>
    from . import _psaix as _psplatform
  File "psutil/_psaix.py", line 20, in <module>
    from . import _psutil_aix as cext
ImportError: cannot import name _psutil_aix
>>> import psutil              ## IMPORTING AGAIN THE SAME SESSION CAUSES DIFFERENT ERROR
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "psutil\__init__.py", line 39, in <module>
    from . import _common
ImportError: cannot import name _common

What can I do here? Installing the module locally using python setup.py install --user is also not working:

bash-4.2$ python setup.py install --user
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'psutil._psutil_aix' extension
xlc_r -ma -I/opt/freeware/include -DAIX_GENUINE_CPLUSCPLUS -Wl,-brtl -g -DNDEBUG -O2 -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=532 -DPSUTIL_AIX=1 -I/opt/freeware/include/python2.7 -c psutil/_psutil_common.c -o build/temp.aix-7.1-2.7/psutil/_psutil_common.o
unable to execute xlc_r: No such file or directory
error: command 'xlc_r' failed with exit status 1

I've tried doing the same with the tweepy package which runs perfectly(given six, requests, and requests_oauthlib are already installed).

EDIT: Just to make clear this is not limited to AIX, I've tried doing the same on Windows, and it gives the same error.

Answer 1

A possible solution could be downloading the wheel from PyPi (psutil on PyPi)

Then open it with a zip program (7zip or similar). In there should be a psutil folder. Place this folder next to your script and try to import it.

Answer 2

AIX is currently not supported by psutil although it will in the next major release.