socket question

[Ben Hutchings]

In article <mailman.1049735831.15656.python-list at python.org>, Rick Y wrote:
> how can i enable _sockt module in my solaris python?. 
> i did not build it. Downloaded it from sunfreeware. 
> 
> ./viewcvs-install
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./viewcvs-install", line 35, in ?
>     import compat
>   File "./lib/compat.py", line 20, in ?
>     import urllib
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/urllib.py", line 26,
> in ?
>     import socket
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/socket.py", line 41,
> in ?
>     from _socket import *
> ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.6:
> open failed: No such file or directory

It looks like you need to get openssl-0.9.6 from there as well.