newbie: Sybase.py segv on import?

Greetings all.  I am a Python newbie but a Sybase hacker of old (also
a Tcl hacker).  I want to learn python and since databases are my
favourite play-toy and I have several sybase servers, I thought I
would get sybase-python and try it out.

I downloaded from the website 

	http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/download.html

and installed using the install command suggested for linux systems

	python setup.py install

I downloaded the sample script (cut and pasted from

	http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/examples.html

and edited it slightly to refer to one of my servers.

I then ran an interactive python session and pasted in commands
one at a time.

the first thing I noticed was that the libct.so was not automatically
found, I had to add /opt/sybase/lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH envar before
the Sybase.py module would work.

Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr  3 2002, 18:16:26)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import sys, string, Sybase
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Sybase.py", line 15, in ?
    from sybasect import *
ImportError: libct.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> 

adding /opt/sybase/lib to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH envar gets us past this error,
but...

Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr  3 2002, 18:16:26)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import sys, string, Sybase
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

this is not encouraging :-)  

just to make sure

Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr  3 2002, 18:16:26)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import sys
>>> import string
>>> import Sybase
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

it is definitely the sybase module that is croaking.

I am running this sybase server (in this instance):

  SQL Server/11.0.3.3/P/Linux Intel/Linux 2.0.36 i586/1/OPT/Thu Sep 10 13:42:44 CEST 1998 

the home page for the Sybase.py project says that 11.0.3 is supported, so I hope
I will be able to talk to my server if I can ever get the module to load.

the rest of the environment:

  gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)

can anyone give me a clue please, so I can get started?

tia

de

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