I don't know, and I'm sorry this isn't more helpful, but...if you don't
get an answer here, I suggest you post to the python apple mailing list.
If you prefer a newsgroup interface (as I do), use gmane's news server
and subscribe to gmane.comp.python.apple (you may still have to join the
mailin
i've built a Python 2.5a0 interpreter on my iBook using gcc 3.3-1666
using the tarball from last nite...
$ uname -a
Darwin myMac.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30
20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
Macintosh powerpc
$
$ python
Python 2.5a0 (trunk, M