make install fails on Fedora Core 13 as well:

make distclean
./configure
make
make install

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./LICENSE /usr/local/lib/python2.7/LICENSE.txt
PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7   \
                ./python -Wi -tt /usr/local/lib/python2.7/compileall.py \
                -d /usr/local/lib/python2.7 -f \
                -x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' \
                /usr/local/lib/python2.7
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/compileall.py", line 17, in <module>
    import struct
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/struct.py", line 1, in <module>
    from _struct import *
ImportError: No module named _struct
make: *** [libinstall] Error 1
[root@freebie Python-2.7.1]# df -T
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3     ext4    50395844   2899168  46984864   6% /
tmpfs        tmpfs     2020464       864   2019600   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1     ext4      396672     29566    346626   8% /boot
/dev/sda2     ext4   898537912 146927532 705967272  18% /db
[root@freebie Python-2.7.1]# uname -av
Linux freebie 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 6 18:09:49 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@freebie Python-2.7.1]# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 13 (Goddard)