Hi Sebastian, Thanks for that link and your notes.
I was under the impression, that the .pyc files will be used (if found) by python to speed up execution of scripts... and so we packaged, deployed and installed the .py/.pyc files on to the ppc-target system. That package includes, site.py(c), types.py(c) etc., among others. Though I see these errors when I invokde 'python -v', I'm able to execute the .py files... but was hoping to use the .pyc files to benefit from the enhanced speed of execution. Like I mentioned to Terry, for some reason only the cross compile generation of .pyc for the ppc-target is not getting done right, whereas the actual ppc-specific python (2.4.2) binaries and extension (.so) modules are getting created properly. We were not trying to just ship the .pyc files and reverse-engineer the .py files from them on the target ppc system. Thanks, /venkat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list