Hiho, at least on my system it doesn't seem to be fixed:
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cajus@frost:~$ dpkg -l python-newt
ii python-newt 0.52.14-6 NEWT module for
Python
cajus@frost:~$ python
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Jan 10 2012, 21:52:50)
[GCC 4.6.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import snack
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/snack.py", line 42, in <module>
import _snack
ImportError: No module named _snack
>>>
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I'm on amd64, too.
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