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Trying to install pip to get this installed gives me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 5, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup
ImportError: No module named setuptools

So I tried installing setuptools:

running install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 94, in <module>
    scripts = scripts,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/root/setuptools-0.6c11/setuptools/command/install.py", line 76, in run
    self.do_egg_install()
  File "/root/setuptools-0.6c11/setuptools/command/install.py", line 85, in do_egg_install
    easy_install = self.distribution.get_command_class('easy_install')
  File "/root/setuptools-0.6c11/setuptools/dist.py", line 395, in get_command_class
    self.cmdclass[command] = cmdclass = ep.load()
  File "/root/setuptools-0.6c11/pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/root/setuptools-0.6c11/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 21, in <module>
    from setuptools.package_index import PackageIndex, parse_bdist_wininst
  File "/root/setuptools-0.6c11/setuptools/package_index.py", line 2, in <module>
    import sys, os.path, re, urlparse, urllib2, shutil, random, socket, cStringIO
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 91, in <module>
    import hashlib
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 136, in <module>
    md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor
    import _md5
ImportError: No module named _md5

I run a Slackware system and I'm trying to run some Python code, but getting a lot of errors such as this one below:

>>> import urllib2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 91, in <module>
    import hashlib
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 136, in <module>
    md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor
    import _md5
ImportError: No module named _md5

urllib2 should be a rather basic lib with Python, how can I get Python working correctly?

I run a Slackware system and I'm trying to run some Python code, but getting a lot of errors such as this one below:

>>> import urllib2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 91, in <module>
    import hashlib
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 136, in <module>
    md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor
    import _md5
ImportError: No module named _md5

urllib2 should be a rather basic lib with Python, how can I get Python working correctly?

Reason being is that urllib2 seems to be a dependancy of praw: https://github.com/praw-dev/praw/issues/135