Python error interpretation

[Chris Mohler]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:
> Can anybody suggest a way to completely do a fresh re-install of all the
> python stuff. Working on the theory that something was hosed, I tried
> that but what I am doing is not working at all. In fact, its worse
> now.

What do you get for:

python --version

aptitude show python

?

Do you maybe have some third-party repos enabled?

Maybe 'aptitude reinstall python'?

Chris