This looks like a common problem but it makes no sense to me I made a test program with "import Adafruit_I2C" as the only line and I get the Import error. I have run sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install python-rpi.gpio sudo python Testpath.py sudo python 2.7 Testpath.py
Testpath.py is my 1 line file everything is in my directory /home/pi/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code/Adafruit_CharLCDPlate
Just solved it The problem is I edited the file via WinSCP. id does something to the file when it saves it back to the Pi. If I open adafruit_i2c .py with Nano it's empty, so I cut and pasted it in and it works Looks like I need to look into the default editor from WinSCP
Frustrated beginner needs help