Marc-Andre Lemburg discovered that the switch from .pyc to .pyo files,
done by _PyImport_Init(), comes to late to affect the import of
exceptions.py by _PyBuiltin_Init_2(). Move _PyImport_Init() up few lines.
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 0b5d0d1..4e16320 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -149,12 +149,12 @@
PyDict_SetItemString(interp->sysdict, "modules",
interp->modules);
+ _PyImport_Init();
+
/* phase 2 of builtins */
_PyBuiltin_Init_2(interp->builtins);
_PyImport_FixupExtension("__builtin__", "__builtin__");
- _PyImport_Init();
-
initsigs(); /* Signal handling stuff, including initintr() */
initmain(); /* Module __main__ */