AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pack'

[Sampsa Riikonen]

Dear List,

I have a freshly installed opensuse 11.2 and I am experiencing the following
problem with the module "subprocess":

sampsa at linux-912g:~> python
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb  3 2009, 20:52:03)
[GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import subprocess
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 404, in <module>
    import pickle
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 171, in <module>
    class Pickler:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 250, in Pickler
    def put(self, i, pack=struct.pack):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pack'

Any ideas how to fix this?

Kind Regards,

Sampsa

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