I have installed zeromq 2.1.11 on mac os x using the steps given on http://www.zeromq.org/area:download Then i installed pyzmq (python bindings ) But i get the following error : import zmq Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module> import zmq File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zmq/__init__.py", line 35, in <module> from zmq.utils import initthreads # initialize threads ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zmq/utils/initthreads.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zmq/utils/initthreads.so: no matching architecture in universal wrapper