ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

[mathewrtaylor]

Version: nltk-3.8.1
Home OS: Ubuntu 23.10
Python Version: 3.10.4
Error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

Steps:
- Activated venv (Python 3.10.4)
- insatlled nltk
- imported into script
- nlk.download()

Provides an error capturing:

nltk/corpus/__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
    from nltk.corpus.reader import *
nltk/corpus/reader/__init__.py", line 106, in <module>
    from nltk.corpus.reader.panlex_lite import *
nltk/corpus/reader/panlex_lite.py", line 15, in <module>
    import sqlite3

Then hops to my machine:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 57, in <module>
    from sqlite3.dbapi2 import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module>
    from _sqlite3 import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

Troubleshooting:
venv Installed SQLite3-0611 0.0.1 -> Same error
venv Installed SQLite4 0.1.1 -> Same error
Host OS Installed libsqlite3-dev -> Same error
Went to ..../nltk/corpus/reader/panlex_lite.py and edited to install sqlite4 -> No error, script just stops.
Forced reinstall -> Same Error