Reinstalling Python with mod_python Problem

[beno]

Isaac Levy wrote:
> Suggestion:
>
> If this is all new to you, and debugging cross-incompatibilities is 
> not what you want to be doing, I'd suggest you do:
>
> First, make sure your system is up to date, and for Zope, make certain 
> you have up-to-date Zlib and Expat installed (easiest from ports).
Afraid to do this. The last guy built a *very* sophisticated shopping 
cart that depends on an older version of Zope. Don't want to break it 
until I'm sure I can fix it ;)
>
> Compile one python and let it all live in /usr/local (default when NOT 
> specifying --prefix during the install), track down and see if any 
> other Python installs exist on the machine.
> You shouldn't need to toss ANY flags at the Python build for that 
> matter, it will work AOK with mod_python and Zope.
Well, I just went to compile python and got this in the make test:

test test_asynchat produced unexpected output:
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*** mismatch between line 3 of expected output and line 3 of actual output:
- Received: 'hello world'
+ error: uncaptured python exception, closing channel 
<test.test_asynchat.echo_client connected at 0x848e10c> 
(socket.error:(61, 'Connection refused') 
[/usr/local/zope/py243/Lib/asynchat.py|handle_read|89] 
[/usr/local/zope/py243/Lib/asyncore.py|recv|343])
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What do I do about that?
TIA,
beno