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Using Windows. I followed the default toolchain setup.
During make flash for "hello_world" project I get a python error:

kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world
$ make flash
ImportError: No module named site

I tried to fix this by setting the PYTHONPATH, but ran into further issues with not finding _collections. I don't know where this file is.

kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world
$ export PYTHONPATH="/mingw32/lib/python2.7/:/mingw32/lib/python2.7/site-packages"

kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world
$ make flash
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/msys32/home/kannhild/esp/esp-idf/components/esptool_py/esptool/esptool.py", line 21, in <module>
import argparse
File "C:/msys32/mingw32/lib/python2.7/argparse.py", line 85, in <module>
import collections as _collections


I am considering abandoning the Windows Environment and trying ubuntu but I expected this to work as default.
Any help?

It looks like the MSYS2 Python installation is somehow very broken.

Can you please run the following commands in the MINGW32 terminal and post the results:

kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world
$ which python
/mingw32/bin/python

kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world
$ python -V
Python 2.7.14

kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world
$ echo $PATH
/mingw32/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/Windows/System32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/opt/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl;/mingw32/lib/python2.7/

kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world

Thanks nathan. This all looks correct to me, I can't really explain how it's failing to import built-in Python modules.

Did you download and unzip the all-in-one environment and toolchain from here?
http://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest ... hain-setup

Is it possible the installation somehow may have been corrupted, or ran out of space at some point?

Yes I downloaded and uncompressed from that link. I tried it multiple times and no luck.
I am sure I did not corrupt as I ran only the "Getting Started" procedure.

Anyway, I have switched to ubuntu for development and the environment is working as expected.