After following the Ubuntu/Debian installation instructions for the Nest simulator I can only import the nest module in python2.x, not python3.x
$ python3
Python 3.6.8 (default, Aug 20 2019, 17:12:48)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
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>>> import nest
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/nest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nest/__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
from . import ll_api # noqa
File "/nest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nest/ll_api.py", line 72, in <module>
from . import pynestkernel as kernel # noqa
ImportError: dynamic module does not define module export function (PyInit_pynestkernel)
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