Well, I tried to run Python with -v option. It seems that python26.zip is partially loaded but can't be used, because zlib is "unavailable".
n...@nima-desktop:~/py$ ./bin/python -v Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] # installing zipimport hook import zipimport # builtin # installed zipimport hook # zipimport: found 2509 names in /home/nima/py/lib/python26.zip # zipimport: zlib UNAVAILABLE 'import site' failed; traceback: zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available # zipimport: zlib UNAVAILABLE Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, May 17 2010, 18:36:54) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/home/nima/py/lib/python26.zip', '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/', '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/home/nima/py/lib/ python2.6/lib-tk', '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/home/nima/ py/lib/lib-dynload'] -- Yours sincerely, Nima Mohammadi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list