poll() on OSX 10.3.9

[Norman Khine]

Hello,
I need to use the 'select' module in python, but get an error on the:

Python 2.5b2 (r25b2:50512, Jul 31 2006, 15:01:51)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1640)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>import select
dir(select)

['__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'error', 'select']

>>>

this works fine on BSD4

Python 2.5b2 (r25b2:50512, Jul 31 2006, 12:43:17)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>import itools
from select import POLLIN
import select
dir(select)

['POLLERR', 'POLLHUP', 'POLLIN', 'POLLNVAL', 'POLLOUT', 'POLLPRI',
'POLLRDBAND', 'POLLRDNORM', 'POLLWRBAND', 'POLLWRNORM', '__doc__',
'__file__', '__name__', 'error', 'poll', 'select']

is there anything specific to do to the python installation before
compiling.

i am using the itools library from http://www.ikaaro.org/itools which
uses this python module

thanks

--
Norman Khine