[SOLVED] Python2.4 on Win32 suddenly started crashing last night

[Tim Chase]

On 09/13/12 08:51, MRAB wrote:
> I get this:
> 
> Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> data = file(r'C:\Python24\DLLs\_socket.pyd', 'rb').read()
>  >>> import md5
>  >>> md5.md5(data).hexdigest()
> '166f1020fedc254d6f25ccee0994caff'

Thanks for taking the time to hammer on this.  I archived off my
binary module from the site-packages directory, uninstalled 2.4.3,
reinstalled using 2.4.4 and copied back in the item to the
site-packages directory, and everything is working now.  I can only
attribute it to bitrot, sun-spots, or some such oddity.

Thanks again.