AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pack'

Thu Sep 10 15:40:11 EDT 2009

On Thu, 2009年09月10日 at 21:07 +0300, Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
> Dear List,
>> I have a freshly installed opensuse 11.2 and I am experiencing the following
> problem with the module "subprocess":
>> sampsa at linux-912g:~> python
> Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 3 2009, 20:52:03)
> [GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import subprocess
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 404, in <module>
> import pickle
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 171, in <module>
> class Pickler:
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 250, in Pickler
> def put(self, i, pack=struct.pack):
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pack'
>> Any ideas how to fix this?
>> Kind Regards,

Is there another struct module that is overriding the built-in one?
>>> import struct
>>> struct.__file__