ok, looks like 
export PYTHONPATH="/home/akravchenko/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
fixed that issue.

Anton


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Anton Kravchenko <kravchenko.anton86@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there,

sql>create or replace function f1() returns table(v1 INT)
more>LANGUAGE PYTHON {
more>         return [1,2,3]
more>};
operation successful (3.658ms)
sql>select * from f1();
Embedded Python is enabled but an error was thrown during initialization.

Does one have to setup another python env variables (like it's done on MonetDB for Windows: PYTHONHOME, PYTHONPATH) on Linux?

p.s. Here are is how I setup environment
1) installed MonetDB v11.27.5 (Jul2017-SP1) binaries 
on centos-release-7-4.1708.el7.centos.x86_64:

2) installed Anaconda2
Python 2.7.13 |Anaconda 4.4.0 (64-bit)| (default, Dec 20 2016, 23:09:15)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux2

export PATH="/home/akravchenko/anaconda2/bin:$PATH"

3) created and started Monet database:

monetdbd create hnode1_dbfarm

monetdbd set port=50001 hnode1_dbfarm

monetdbd set control=yes hnode1_dbfarm

monetdbd set passphrase=monetdb hnode1_dbfarm

monetdbd start hnode1_dbfarm

monetdb create hnode1_dbfarm_db1

monetdb set embedpy=true hnode1_dbfarm_db1

monetdb start hnode1_dbfarm_db1

monetdb release hnode1_dbfarm_db1

4)monetdbd get all hnode1_dbfarm
   property            value
hostname         somehostname
dbfarm           hnode1_dbfarm
status           monetdbd[31089] 1.7 (Jul2017-SP1) is serving this dbfarm
mserver          /usr/bin/mserver5
logfile          hnode1_dbfarm/merovingian.log
pidfile          hnode1_dbfarm/merovingian.pid
sockdir          /tmp
listenaddr       localhost
port             50001
exittimeout      60
forward          proxy
discovery        yes
discoveryttl     600
control          yes
passphrase       {SHA512}a73f1d86383446438ac64f56e15ada38b41fbb18f029d2181723aeb2acac6a831f60e5fdbd64ac2c8c70e035dd44cbbe3b45565ef2d58feb2821a2078c7fad35
mapisock         /tmp/.s.monetdb.50001
controlsock      /tmp/.s.merovingian.50001

5) monetdb get all hnode1_dbfarm_db1
     name          prop     source           value
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  name      -        hnode1_dbfarm_db1
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  type      default  database
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  shared    default  yes
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  nthreads  default  32
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  optpipe   default  default_pipe
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  readonly  default  no
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  embedr    default  no
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  embedpy   local    yes
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  embedpy3  default  no
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  nclients  default  64
hnode1_dbfarm_db1  dbextra   default  <unknown>

Thank you,
Anton