modulenotfounderror no module named '_ctypes' installing python code example

Example: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes'

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-setuptools python-pip python-smbus
sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev openssl
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev
Now execute the configure file cloned above:

./configure
make # alternatively `make -j 4` will utilize 4 threads
sudo make altinstall