Expat confusion

[Cameron Laird]

How do I generate an installation that
  import xml.parsers.expat
correctly?

Suppose I'm working on a Unix host, from 2.0 or later
sources.  I recognize I need to have expat installed
(what does that mean?  Is it something other than having
  /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a
  /usr/local/bin/xmlwf
  /usr/local/bin/gennmtab
?).  How do I get the generation procedure to make a
pyexpat.so, though?

The most immediate symptom of my discontent is
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    File "/usr/local/src/Python-2.1/Lib/xml/parsers/expat.py", line 4, in ?
      from pyexpat import *
  ImportError: No module named pyexpat 
when I attempt the import above.
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