distutils question

[Issac Trotts]

I came back to work only to find that my Python installation
had gone insane.

$ python
ActivePython 2.1.1, build 212 (ActiveState)
Python 2.1.1 (#20, Jul 26 2001, 11:38:51) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from distutils.core import setup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "j:\Python21\Lib\distutils\core.py", line 16, in ?
    from distutils.util import grok_environment_error
  File "j:\Python21\Lib\distutils\util.py", line 11, in ?
    import sys, os, string, re
  File "j:\Python21\Lib\re.py", line 28, in ?
    from sre import *
  File "j:\Python21\Lib\sre.py", line 17, in ?
    import sre_compile
  File "j:\Python21\Lib\sre_compile.py", line 11, in ?
    import _sre
ImportError: No module named _sre
>>>

Reinstalling the other Python 2.1 produced the same result.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Issac