Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> Maybe the interpreter itself is corrupted? Google suggests that debsums >> may be the tool to find out. > > That's part of what I'm trying to track down, but why it should have > changed in the past few days is beyond me. There's no way that > rebuilding Python 3.5 should break Python 2.7 on the same system, > right?
It will be easier to reason about that once we know what is broken ;) > I haven't installed any Debian updates this week. > > Just tried debsums, and it isn't complaining about any corruption or > damage. OK. sre_constants.py looks pretty generic, the only module it imports (_sre) is a built-in and the interpreter is known-good. If the modules imported before sre_constants.py are known-good, too, and no other debian user sees the same problem I'm out of realistic ideas. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list