HELP: python2.1: "SRE module mismatch"

[Francisco]

  Hello folks, 

  I compiled python2.1 with Debian (potato) Linux and I`m getting a
  problem with sre module. Anything that tries to use sre will end up
  like this:

 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/glob.py", line 4, in ?
    import fnmatch
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/fnmatch.py", line 13, in ?
    import re
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/re.py", line 28, in ?
    from sre import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/sre.py", line 17, in ?
    import sre_compile
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/sre_compile.py", line 15, in ?
    assert _sre.MAGIC == MAGIC, "SRE module mismatch"
AttributeError: MAGIC


  any hints on what I can do to solve this?

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  Francisco.
  São Paulo, Brasil.
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