[Spambayes] Unable to create hammie.db. All sb_*.py give same error

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    johabba> OS: CentOS 5.5 x86_64
    johabba> Version: spambayes-1.1a6
    johabba> Python: 2.4.3 (#1, Nov 11 2010, 13:30:19) 
    ...
    johabba>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/lockfile-0.9.1-py2.4.egg/lockfile/linklockfile.py", line 6
    johabba>     from . import (LockBase, LockFailed, NotLocked, NotMyLock, LockTimeout,
    johabba>          ^
    johabba> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Revert to lockfile 0.8 or upgrade your Python installation.

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