[Pythonmac-SIG] an import library was too new for a client

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Pieter Claerhout <PClaerhout@CREO.BE> said:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed Python 1.5.2c1 recently, and neow I have problems
> importing compiled modules. Whenever I try to import one,
> I get the following error:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    file "<input>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: PythonCore: an import library was too new for a client
> 

This means that the dynamic module was created for an older version of 
MacPython.

I've just submitted a patch to Guido (for historic reasons this code
is in the machine-independent part of Python) that gives a beter error 
message in this case.
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