It has been brought to my attention that the distutils extension was broken in Pyrex 0.6. Get 0.6.1 while it's hot: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ What is Pyrex? -------------- Pyrex is a new language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all Python reference counting and error checking handled automatically. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg