Can only import select as root?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Lester McCann <l at acm.org>:
| (Quoting someone else)
|>|   >>> import select
|>|   Traceback (most recent call last):
|>|     File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
|>|   ImportError: No module named select
|>|   >>>
|> 
|> What are the permissions on that module?  Try
|> 
|> $ ls -l /usr/lib/python-2.1/Lib/select.py*
|
| There is no such file in the Python lib directory on my system.  (I ran
| 'find' from the root of the directory tree to verify that it doesn't
| exist anywhere.)  As I can access it when running as root, I'm assuming
| that it's built-in somehow.  I agree that it seems like a permission
| problem, but...

... but that isn't the name of the file.  It used to be a built-in, and
could theoretically still be built in, but normally in 2.1 it would
be more like $prefix/lib/python2.1/lib-dynload/select.so (along with
a whole bunch of other modules.)

	Donn Cave, donn at oz.net