python2.5 importerror on md5

[samn]

Chris Lambacher wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:28:46PM -0700, samn wrote:
> > i think the problem is different versions of openssl on the two
> > machines , 0.9.7a and 0.9.8b
> I second that this is the likely culprit.  I got bit by it while trying to
> do cross compile.  The module build process assumes a couple of locations that
> a particular library might be and takes the first one it finds, regardless of
> which one you actually want it to use.  I ended up making modifications to
> what modules were installed to get md5 to finally import.
>
> My experiences are outlined at this page:
> http://whatschrisdoing.com/blog/2006/10/06/howto-cross-compile-python-25/
>
> -Chris

thanks , i actually ended up installing openssl 0.9.8b on the machine
with version 0.9.7a and then reinstalling hashlib (after taking out
part of setup.py that doesn't let you install for python >= 2.5) in the
right place and then it worked