ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sfi'

[Maciej Nasinski]

I could not run the pystata with the newest update of the STATA 17 SE. I reinstall the STATA and stata_setup (Restart the computer too), unfortunately not helped.

What is the problem is the lack of sfi initialized. When I run `python: import sfi` it is working perfectly fine inside STATA.

Thanks for the support.

```

import stata_setup

stata_setup.config("/Applications/Stata", "se")

from pystata import config




> config.status()

System information

Python version 3.10.6

Stata version SE

Stata library path /Applications/Stata/StataSE.app/Contents/MacOS/libstata-se.dylib

Stata initialized True

sfi initialized False




Settings

graphic display True

graphic size width = default, height = default

graphic format svg




> from pystata import stata

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)

Input In [5], in <cell line: 1>()

----> 1 from pystata import stata




File /Applications/Stata/utilities/pystata/stata.py:16, in <module>

13 else:

14 from queue import LifoQueue

---> 16 import sfi

17 from pystata.core import stout

18 import codeop




ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sfi'

```




Machine:




```

posix.uname_result(sysname='Darwin', nodename='Maciejs-MacBook-Pro.local', release='21.6.0', version='Darwin Kern

> el Version 21.6.0: Wed Aug 10 14:25:27 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.141.5~2/RELEASE_X86_64', machine='x86_64')

```

[Maciej Nasinski]

I think I finally found out the problem, sometime ago I had a similar one with the R installation from Homebrew.
When I install python directly from https://www.python.org/downloads/ then pystata works fine now.
This time it was a problem of the pyenv and the python installation from the source, such python was not suited for STATA (in my case).

To reproduce the problem:

```
brew install pyenv
pyenv install -l
# is installed from source
pyenv install 3.10.6
pyenv global 3.10.6
# close terminal
python
# now pystata will fail
```

[Maciej Nasinski]

The answer for pyenv is to still build the python from source but with the shared library, `CONFIGURE_OPTS=--enable-shared pyenv install 3.10.6` .