Pipenv: “No module named 'gdbm'” when command not found in Pipenv shell running on Ubuntu

[kingname]

$ python3 -m pipenv.help
<details><summary>$ python -m pipenv.help output</summary>

Pipenv version: `'2018.05.18'`

Pipenv location: `'/home/kingname/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pipenv'`

Python location: `'/usr/bin/python3'`

Other Python installations in `PATH`:

  - `2.7`: `/usr/bin/python2.7`
  - `2.7`: `/usr/bin/python2.7`
  - `3.5`: `/usr/bin/python3.5m`
  - `3.5`: `/usr/bin/python3.5`
  - `3.6`: `/usr/bin/python3.6m`
  - `3.6`: `/usr/bin/python3.6`

  - `2.7.12`: `/usr/bin/python`
  - `2.7.12`: `/usr/bin/python2`
  - `3.6.5`: `/usr/bin/python3`

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.6.5',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform_machine': 'x86_64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '4.4.0-43-Microsoft',
 'platform_system': 'Linux',
 'platform_version': '#1-Microsoft Wed Dec 31 14:42:53 PST 2014',
 'python_full_version': '3.6.5',
 'python_version': '3.6',
 'sys_platform': 'linux'}

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Expected result

show command not find instead of raise python error.

Actual result

When possible, provide the verbose output (--verbose), especially for locking and dependencies resolving issues.

Steps to replicate

do it in Ububtu subsystem of Windows 10

[uranusjr]

Can’t reproduce. My guess is asdf stands for something particular in your environment. Pipenv does emit command not found error if it can’t find a command, but asdf seems to be actually found.

[techalchemy]

The command was found in this case. It is a pyenv dependency. https://github.com/tuvistavie/asdf-python

[kingname]

In my case， any string which is not a command will case this error. not only asdf, but also any other strings such as 'x123', 'mmmm', 'qqqq' and etc. but for existed commands, everything will be fine.

[techalchemy]

Can you provide the error message of that happening? The above error is an import error related to a missing system dependency required for the package asdf

[kingname]

[kingname]

In pipenv shell, any string will raise error if it is not an existed Command. But any valid Command work as normal. And if I exit the pipenv shell, everything will be ok.

[uranusjr]

Something is going quite wrong with your Python environment :| Pipenv is indeed related to the exceptions, but it’s caused by an underlying misconfiguration in your system somewhere.

This problem looks similar, but for apt-get instead of Pipenv (both are built with Python, however!). You might want to try the accepted solution and see if it solves your problem.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/720416/no-module-named-gdbm

[kingname]

problem solved, just to sudo apt-get install python3.6-gdbm

[uranusjr]

I changed the title to make this more searchable, in case others need this in the future.