python2.1: "SRE module mismatch"

[Fredrik Lundh]

Francisco wrote:
> 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:

> assert _sre.MAGIC == MAGIC, "SRE module mismatch"
> AttributeError: MAGIC

> any hints on what I can do to solve this?

get rid of any old modules you have in your Python path.
try this:

    python -v -c "import sre"

and make sure it doesn't pick up any 2.0 modules (possible
culprits in this case are _sremodule.so or sre_constants.py)

Cheers /F