ImportError: No module named _md5 - Please help

[wadi wadi]

I can't alter the import statement as the error log is pointing to one
of the installed python files 'hashlib.py'

/python/2.6.2/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py

and I don't have the right permissions to alter the python installation.
Any idea?

On 10/29/09, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please don't post this to comp.lang.python *and* the python mailinglist.
> Both are synchronized, so your post shows up twice on both.
>
>> I am trying to run a python script and got this error.
>>
>>>>import _md5
>>>>ImportError: No module named _md5
>
> I've never seen this import. Normally, it should be
>
>  import md5
>
> So you might try to alter the import statement to
>
>  import md5 as _md5
>
> and see if things work.
>
> It might be of course that the author of your script provided a home-grown
> implementation of md5 which has a different interface, and called this _md5
> to prevent name-clashes. Then you need to modify your whole script to make
> it work.
>
>>
>> Googling the problem suggested that I install the 'py25-hashlib'.
>>
>> the following does not work for me 'sudo port install py25-hashlib' ,
>> trying to install MacPorts raised many problems.
>>
>> My question is: any idea on how to install it using yum?
>> I am running python 2.6.2 on a centos machine.
>
> I don't understand this - you are talking about ports which is a Mac-thing,
> but run on centos?
>
> However that may be, this *should* be part of core python anyway. If not,
> you might look in yum for some python-dependency-packages, no idea how to
> do that though (debian user here)
>
> Diez
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