import _winreg does not work. How do I fix?

[John Sellers]

newbee question...I haven't worked on Python since Python 1.5.2


cygwin setup installs Python 2.3.2-1 on Windows XP

however:


$ python
Python 2.3.2 (#1, Oct  9 2003, 12:03:29)
[GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import sys
 >>> from _winreg import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named _winreg
 >>>



WHY??