_socket module missing solaris 7 build python 2.3.3

[Stephen Williams]

after compiling python 2.3.3 on a solaris 7 system, one of our users
gets this error message now with a script he had previously written:

% python

from ftplib import FTP

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/ftplib.py", line 45, in ?
import socket
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/socket.py", line 44, in ?
import _socket
ImportError: No module named _socket
this behavior is also apparent if you simply download the python 2.3.3
distribution from sunfreeware.com, so it makes me think there is a bug
somewhere in this distribution. whatever the reason, the module _socket
just simply does not get made. and no, it is not in any of the normal
paths that one would include for python libraries.

anyone out there know of a way around this? compiler flags or
something?
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[Martin v. Löwis]

Stephen Williams wrote:

anyone out there know of a way around this? compiler flags or
something?

Around what? That sunfreeware does not ship the socket module?

Contact Sun.

If you want to work around contacting Sun, you have these
alternatives:
- build Python yourself.
- just build the socket module.

Regards,
Martin

[Dieter Maurer]

"Martin v. Löwis" <ma****@v.loewis.de> writes on Sat, 01 May 2004 00:48:46 +0200:

Stephen Williams wrote:

anyone out there know of a way around this? compiler flags or
something?

Around what? That sunfreeware does not ship the socket module?

I have had similar problems:

The SUN header files for Solaris 7 did not define "INET V6" related
macros. Therefore, the compilation of "_socket.c" failed.

I modified the Python sources slightly to define the missing
macros.
Dieter