_socket module missing solaris 7 build python 2.3.3

[Stephen Williams]

after compiling python 2.3.3 on a solaris 7 system, one of our users
gets this error message now with a script he had previously written:

% python
>>> from ftplib import FTP
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/ftplib.py", line 45, in ?
    import socket
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/socket.py", line 44, in ?
    import _socket
ImportError: No module named _socket


this behavior is also apparent if you simply download the python 2.3.3
distribution from sunfreeware.com, so it makes me think there is a bug
somewhere in this distribution.  whatever the reason, the module _socket
just simply does not get made.  and no, it is not in any of the normal
paths that one would include for python libraries.

anyone out there know of a way around this?  compiler flags or
something?
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