Mandrake 10.1 and Python 2.3.4

[Joal Heagney]

Hi everyone. I've been getting this error message in python, and it's 
really driving me up the wall.


[joal at localhost joal]$ python
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Apr 18 2005, 19:03:06)
[GCC 3.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>

Here's the relevant line when i run python in verbose mode:


'import site' failed; traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site.py", line 169, in ?
     sys.lib,
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'lib'

Is this a Mandrake or a Python mistake?
And does anyone know how to fix it?

I think this is the reason why I'm getting errors when it comes to 
importing other python packages.

Joal