sqlite3 error on AWS lambda with Python 3

Question

I am building a python 3.6 AWS Lambda deploy package and was facing an issue with SQLite.

In my code I am using nltk which has a

Answer 1

This is a bit of a hack, but I've gotten this working by dropping the _sqlite3.so file from Python 3.6 on CentOS 7 directly into the root of the project being deployed with Zappa to AWS. This should mean that if you can include _sqlite3.so directly into the root of your ZIP, it should work, so it can be imported by this line in cpython:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.6/Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py#L27

Not pretty, but it works. You can find a copy of _sqlite.so here:

https://github.com/Miserlou/lambda-packages/files/1425358/_sqlite3.so.zip

Good luck!