Mandrake 10.1 and Python 2.3.4

[Steve Horsley]

qwweeeit at yahoo.it wrote:
> Hi Joal,
> I can only tell you that in my Linux Mandrake 10.1 (Community Edition),
> all is ok:
> Python 2.3.4 (#2, Aug 19 2004, 15:49:40)
> [GCC 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> 
>>>>import site
>>>>dir (site)
> 
> ['_Helper', '_Printer', '__builtin__', '__builtins__', '__doc__',
> '__file__', '__name__', '_dirs_in_sys_path', '_init_pathinfo', '_test',
> 'addpackage', 'addsitedir', 'encoding', 'here', 'makepath', 'os',
> 'prefixes', 'sitedirs', 'sys']
> 
> This can't exclude that the error is in Mandrake's site (if you have
> the Official Edition),  but I can't help you further because I am not
> an expert.
> Bye.
> 

Likewise, 10.1 official (powerpack) is OK:

[steve at StevesPC steve]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.8.1-12mdk (quintela at n5.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc 
version 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)) #1 Fri Oct 1 
12:53:41 CEST 2004
[steve at StevesPC steve]$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Aug 19 2004, 15:49:40)
[GCC 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information.
 >>> import sys
 >>> dir(sys)
['__displayhook__', '__doc__', '__excepthook__', '__name__', 
'__stderr__', '__stdin__', '__stdout__', '_getframe', 
'api_version', 'arch', 'argv', 'builtin_module_names', 
'byteorder', 'call_tracing', 'callstats', 'copyright', 
'displayhook', 'exc_clear', 'exc_info', 'exc_type', 'excepthook', 
'exec_prefix', 'executable', 'exit', 'getcheckinterval', 
'getdefaultencoding', 'getdlopenflags', 'getfilesystemencoding', 
'getrecursionlimit', 'getrefcount', 'hexversion', 
'last_traceback', 'last_type', 'last_value', 'lib', 'maxint', 
'maxunicode', 'meta_path', 'modules', 'path', 'path_hooks', 
'path_importer_cache', 'platform', 'prefix', 'ps1', 'ps2', 
'setcheckinterval', 'setdlopenflags', 'setprofile', 
'setrecursionlimit', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout', 
'version', 'version_info', 'warnoptions']
 >>>


Perhaps you should uninstall and reinstall python, in case a file 
is corrupt.

Steve