This is because the fine folks at Apple aren't bothered to ship the uncompiled version of the standard python libs.
See the files in the library directory: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/
This is for my Lion installation. For an older Snow-Leopard python2.6 installation, the uncompiled files are there.
You could install a new (, more linux like) python with macports.
This is because the fine folks at Apple aren't bothered to ship the uncompiled version of the standard python libs.
See the files in the library directory: Library/ Frameworks/ Python. framework/ Versions/ 2.7/lib/ python2. 7/
/System/
This is for my Lion installation. For an older Snow-Leopard python2.6 installation, the uncompiled files are there.
You could install a new (, more linux like) python with macports.