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.
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