[Baypiggies] Python 2.6 build on a Debian box; batteries not included??

Tung Wai Yip tungwaiyip at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 29 07:36:53 CEST 2010


I'm using Python 2.6 that I downloaded and built on a Debian system.  
Things are
working fine for me for a few weeks. Then I notice a problem when I failed  
to
import zlib.

>>> import zlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named zlib

I'm so use to having all these Python modules included in the standard  
build I don't know what to do without them. I dig around more and find  
that they are suppose to be in a directory

     /usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload

zlib.so is not in that directory. Not only is zlib.so missing, by  
comparing it with a equivalent directory from a Python 2.5 interpreter  
that comes with the system, I found that a number of modules are also  
missing.

     _hashlib.so
     _bsddb.so
     _curses.so
     _curses_panel.so
     _sqlite3.so
     _ssl.so
     bz2.so
     dbm.so
     readline.so
     rgbimg.so
     zlib.so


Yes, even readline is missing! No wonder the interactive interpreter is  
acting weird.

I think if I look at the output when I did ./configure I may find out some  
clue. Well it is several hundred lines long. Some line say yes and some  
line say no. So I can't really figure out what has went wrong.

If anyone can give me more pointers it is greatly appreciated.

Wai Yip



tungwaiyip at tungwaiyip:~/download/Python-2.6.5$ cat 2010-04-27_configure.log
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configure: creating ./config.status
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config.status: creating Modules/Setup.config
config.status: creating pyconfig.h
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creating Makefile



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