Python in non-standard location erring with "No module named _sha256"

[emallove]

On May 20, 11:27 am, emallove <ethan.mall... at sun.com> wrote:
> I'm running into the below "No modules named _sha256" issue, with a
> python installed in a non-standard location.
>
> $ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 20 2008, 09:46:50)
> [GCC 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import md5
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/ws/ompi-tools/lib/python2.5/md5.py", line 6, in <module>
>     from hashlib import md5
>   File "/ws/ompi-tools/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 135, in
> <module>
>     sha224 = __get_builtin_constructor('sha224')
>   File "/ws/ompi-tools/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 63, in
> __get_builtin_constructor
>     import _sha256
> ImportError: No module named _sha256
>
> Googling around, this seems to be related to OpenSSL being in a non-
> standard location? I've edited the Setup file to set $(SSL) to the non-
> standard location. Now Python compiles fine, but I still get the above
> error.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ethan

One solution was to just use Python 2.3.7 (instead of 2.5).

-Ethan