RPi.GPIO under Python 3

Question

Raspberry Pi2 B, standard Raspbian. Using RPi.GPIO, V3 installed as:

sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio python3-rpi.gpio

On line

import RPi.GPIO

I get

ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/RPi/GPIO.so: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct 

(either in interpreter or as code run as python3 myCode.py).

Any help please!?

• joan: It may be broken on jessie. It requires Python < 3.3 but jessie uses Python 3.4.2.

Answer 1

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) # set board mode to Broadcom
GPIO.setup(17, GPIO.OUT) # set up pin 17
GPIO.setup(18, GPIO.OUT) # set up pin 18
GPIO.output(17, 1) # turn on pin 17
GPIO.output(18, 1) # turn on pin 18

from here.

Answer 2

It might be that your Pi is not updated.

Go to the command line on your pi and enter:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

After running these commands, reinstall both the packages. It should work.

Answer 3

pip install RPi.GPIO

From Here: https://pypi.org/project/RPi.GPIO/#description