Message 113510 - Python tracker

> heapq tries to import _heapq but, at this point, the build dir 
> (such as "build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/") hasn't been added to sys.path

The problem only exists for developers, not for an installation copy of Python?

Another approach is to call required site code earlier (eg. rewrite it in C and execute it before loading the locale module).