title: using the iio python package
body: <p>Hello there fellow Devs :)</p>
  
  <p>I want to listen for the information given by the <strong>MMA8452</strong> acceleration sensor with python.
  To do this i want to use the libiio package for python. </p>
  
  <p>To install it I manually built it following the instructions given in <a href="https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-software/libiio#building_on_the_linux_host_target" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a> guide</p>
  
  <p>It seemed to be installed fine, cuz I have no Problem importing the Package because it is located in my site-packages folder.</p>
  
  <p>However if I want to do the initial step of creating a context with the "iio.context()"-function, I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bindings/python/examples/iio_info.py", line 89, in &lt;module&gt;
  main()
  File "./bindings/python/examples/iio_info.py", line 34, in main
  ctx = iio.Context(uri)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iio.py", line 730, in __init__
  self._context = _new_default()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iio.py", line 33, in _checkNull
  raise OSError(err, _strerror(err))
  OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone help me get the iio package working?</p>
  
  <p>For my hardware: 
  I use the Raspberry Pi3 model B, with Raspberian-stretch-lite v4.9</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,
  Holger</p>