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pycrypto develoment server error "from Crypto.Cipher import blockalgo"

I have installed pycrypto version 2.6 , and i am getting this error

from Crypto.Cipher import blockalgo
ImportError: cannot import name blockalgo

I have read many post but i am unable to solve this problem

Solution

  • If you are not able to import anything from Crypto.Cipher at all, it might be due to folders, crypto and respective egg info, under site-packages are created with lower-case 'c'

    /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/crypto
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/crypto-1.0.0-py2.7.egg-info

    Imports were successful when same case was used while importing

    from crypto.Cipher import AES

    or renaming the folders

    /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Crypto-1.0.0-py2.7.egg-info
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Crypto

    I went with the later, to have consistency with others.

    I use Eclipse and was able to overcome this problem using one of the above solutions. Sometimes we overlook these kind of details easily. Its a long shot, hope this helps!