title: ImportError _versionhelper when setting up Bloomberg Python API
body: <p>I am trying to get set up with the Bloomberg Python API. I have been following along with this <a href="https://medium.com/@johann_78792/getting-started-with-bloombergs-python-desktop-api-5fd083b4193a" rel="nofollow noreferrer">tutorial</a>. I am able to successfully <code>python -m pip install — index-url=https://bloomberg.bintray.com/pip/simple blpapi</code>, but then when I try to run <code>import blpapi</code> in the Python interpreter, I get the following error. How do I resolve this error (wondering if it has something to due with me using Python 3.8)?</p>
  
  <pre><code>ImportError:
  ---------------------------- ENVIRONMENT -----------------------------
  Platform: Windows-10-10.0.17763-SP0
  Architecture: ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
  Python: 3.8.0 (tags/v3.8.0:fa919fd, Oct 14 2019, 19:21:23) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)]
  Python implementation: CPython
  
  blpapi 64-bit will be loaded from: "C:\blp\API\blpapi_cpp_3.13.1.1\lib\blpapi3_64.dll"
  blpapi 32-bit will be loaded from: "C:\blp\API\blpapi_cpp_3.13.1.1\lib\blpapi3_32.dll"
  System PATH: (* marks locations where blpapi was found)
      "C:\Windows\system32"
      "C:\Windows"
      "C:\Windows\System32\Wbem"
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\"
      "C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\"
      "C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL"
      "C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL"
      "c:\nx_dll"
      "C:\Program Files\nodejs\"
    * "C:\blp\API\blpapi_cpp_3.13.1.1\lib"
      "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\"
      "C:\Users\cpage\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Scripts\"
      "C:\Users\cpage\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\"
      "C:\Users\cpage\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps"
    * "C:\blp\DAPI"
      "C:\blp\DAPI\DDE"
      "C:\Users\cpage\AppData\Roaming\npm"
      "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3"
      "C:\Users\cpage\AppData\Local\hyper\app-3.0.2\resources\bin"
      "C:\Users\cpage\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin"
    * "C:\blp\API\blpapi_cpp_3.13.1.1\lib"
  
  blpapi package at: "C:\Users\cpage\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages"
  
  Current directory: "C:\Users\cpage"
  
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  No module named '_versionhelper'
  
  Could not open the C++ SDK library.
  
  Download and install the latest C++ SDK from:
  
      http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/api-library
  
  If the C++ SDK is already installed, please ensure that the path to the library
  was added to PATH before entering the interpreter.
  </code></pre>