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.