"ImportError: No module named wx" on Debian Jessie Python 2.7 after installing python-wxtools

I'm really confused as to why this fails as I followed the directions for Installing on Ubuntu Or Debian.

In the terminal, I tried running:

apt-get install python-wxtools

which succeeds.

But when I try to import it in Python:

import wx

it fails with the error:

ImportError: No module named wx

I'm not sure if this is related, but it also installs v3.0 (which I thought was the version for Phoenix/Python3?) while being dependent on Python 2.7.

For reference, I tried this off the python:2.7.10 Docker image, which is built off Debian Jesse. You can reproduce as such:

$ docker run -it python:2.7.10 bash
root@b3ba556667ac:/# apt-get install python-wxtools
root@b3ba556667ac:/# python
>>> import wx
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named wx

For posterity¹, back in December 2015, I ended up solving this by migrating my Dockerfile from a python:2.7 base to a ubuntu:14.04 base.

After installing Python, the installation instructions worked the same, but I no longer received an import error:

FROM ubuntu:14.04

# install Python
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
  python-pip && \
  apt-get autoremove -y

# install wxPython
RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends python-wxtools