Problems compiling/installing 2.1 on Linux

[Johann Spies]

I get the following error message after ./configure;make on a Debian
Potato System on which I have Python 1.5.2 installed:
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PYTHONPATH= ./python ./setup.py build
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./setup.py", line 9, in ?
    import sys, os, getopt
ImportError: No module named os
make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1
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Can somebody help me to correct this please?

Johann
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