OK it seems there's a bug in zipimport.c that was fixed in 2.4. I copied across
the 2.4 version and after removing a single new error check the rebuilt python
2.3 works fine. There was supposed to be a patch here
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/dist/src/Modules/zipimport.c?r
I'm trying to run some aged software on a new machine which runs
Linux app2.reportlab.com 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:46 UTC
2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
The software is required to use python 2.3 so first I've had some problems
building python itself. Appare
