[SciPy-user] pynetcdf crashing on Python 2.5

[David Cournapeau]

Mary Haley wrote:
> Robert, sorry, you're right, this isn't a NumPy issue, but it
> manifested itself when I tried to build NumPy. I built Python 2.5 (I
> thought successfully), and then when I tried to build NumPy 1.0.3 I
> got the error:
>
>     ImportError: No module named _md5
>   
I got a similar problem when building python on a solaris machine. On 
Linux, I would strongly recommend using the python available in your 
distribution, though. What is the reason you built your own ?

cheers,

David