smtplib

[Senthil Kumar]

I compiled and installed python 2.1.1 in my linux server, I tried to send an
e-mail using python. I wrote a script to import smptlib and send the test
message, I get the following error

--
 import smtplib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 42, in ?
    import socket
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/socket.py", line 41, in ?
    from _socket import *
ImportError: No module named _socket

I am not sure if this is bug or or I missed something during my python
compilation.

I tried the same script with python 1.6.1 on the same machine it works fine.

I appreciate any feedback to this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Sen Kumar.