Greetings, > The installation went through successfully, however I > noticed that some of the _*.so files did not get built under > lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/ folder (eg _sha256.so) , which is likely the reason > why my setuptools install failed due to the error: I believe you need the developer libraries for that (including the C header files). IIRC "sudo apt-get build-dep python" should install all the required packages.
HTH, -- Miki -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list