'encodings' module gone in Python 2.5?

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

Gustavo, I should have thought of that.  Apparently Ark's Python 2.5 is 
more broken down than 2.4 was.  There is an actual python-encodings RPM; 
I'll try that tonight, on my devel machine.
>
> 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.
>