No re module for OpenOffice Python core?

[Cybb20]

According to the DEFECT:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=21332

The sre.py and sre.pyc files are corrupted in the OOo Python core.
Although I replaced these files with the ones from my standard Python core (2.3.3) I still am not able to import the re module (regular expressions), which is useful for searching for patterns in strings.
I still get an ImportError (out of the Exception hirarchy) telling me that there is no module named re.

The odd thing is that I already saw code on some sites where people just imported the re module without having any traceback.
I really would like to get use of re but without any major modifications, like Danny has described (possibility of having another Python core in the OOo folder by means of a batch file).
Any suggestions?
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[Henrik]

Hi Cybb20,
have you tried to grab a copy of ActiveState's Python and use their
_sre.pyd file, as http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=21332 which you are refering to suggests?

I think mixing OOo's Python with Python 2.3 is a compiler issue if I remember correctly, and you will find a discussion on it here http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html.

ActiveState:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/

Dunno if it helps, hopefully it does...

Henrik

[Cybb20]

now it works, thanks.
I wonder why it has to be the ActiveState distribution.
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[Henrik]

Hi,

[Cybb20]

Tkinter doesn't work, as well.
I wonder why these exceptions happen with these fundamental modules, I can't really imagine how this could not be seen when distributed, or did the developers simply ignore these errors?
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