'encodings' module gone in Python 2.5?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hi Jonathan,

 > Am working on a Smart SRPM for Ark Linux.  Smart built and ran very
 > nicely indeed with the current stable Python in Ark, which is Python
 > 2.4.  But I need to build the Smart SRPM based on Python 2.5 if
 > possible, along with the newest PyGTK (2.8.6).  So far it builds and
 > installs fine, but when I try to run in either command-line or GUI
 > mode, it gives:

I don't think the encodings module went anywhere.  Ark Linux is
probably breaking the Python distribution in several packages.

  [niemeyer at burma ~]% python2.5
  Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Oct  6 2006, 15:22:41)
  [GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu4)] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import encodings
  >>> encodings
  <module 'encodings' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/__init__.pyc'>

Please let me know if you figure out what the problem is.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net