Similar error on make install.  Using Centos 5

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./LICENSE /home/ac927k/local/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/LICENSE.txt
PYTHONPATH=/home/ac927k/local/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7   \
                ./python -Wi -tt /home/ac927k/local/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/compileall.py \
                -d /home/ac927k/local/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7 -f \
                -x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' \
                /home/ac927k/local/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ac927k/local/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/compileall.py", line 17, in <module>
    import struct
  File "/home/ac927k/local/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/struct.py", line 1, in <module>
    from _struct import *
ImportError: No module named _struct
make: *** [libinstall] Error 1


[1]+  Exit 2                  make install >&~/python2.7_make_install.log
[ac927k@limbo Python-2.7]$ clear
[ac927k@limbo Python-2.7]$ df -T
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
              ext3    73608360  11832396  57976516  17% /
/dev/sda1     ext3      101086     26199     69668  28% /boot
tmpfs        tmpfs     1029736         0   1029736   0% /dev/shm
[ac927k@limbo Python-2.7]$ uname -av
Linux limbo.local 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 19:04:48 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[ac927k@limbo Python-2.7]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
[ac927k@limbo Python-2.7]$