Yep, that was it, I was using a local (pip installed) version of cffi. I apologize for wasting your time guys. Thank you for the help.
Cheers, Daniel On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 15:53 +0000, Tristan Seligmann wrote: > Could you check and report what versions of python-cffi and > python-cffi-backend you have installed? (ie. dpkg -l python-cffi > python-cffi-backend) python-cffi & backend 1.5.0-1 > Also the output of "import cffi; cffi" from the same Python > interpreter session as the one where you experience the import-time > error. import cffi; cffi <module 'cffi' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist- packages/cffi/__init__.pyc'> 1.1.0
