I'm getting an IMPORT ERROR with the following error message in Django debug mode /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml-2.3-py2.6-win32.egg/lxml/objectify.pyd: invalid ELF header
What does this mean and how do I fix it? Google is revealing not very much at the moment. This error is coming from this package I am using in my Django app
Update I'm using ubuntu and Python2.6
The error means the objectify.pyd is not a valid shared library. You seem to have lxml compiled for different version of python from what you are running.
Guessing from the path, the fact that 'ELF' is an object (shared and executable) format used on unices and the package has -win32 in it's name you are probably trying to use windows build on linux.
simply do a sudo pip install -U lxml
I had the same error, and it found an update to the existing installation and fixed it for me.
Alternatively, you may also use easy_install At times easy_install works better than pip, as sometimes pip may refuse to replace the existing library version as it's being used by the OS.
