The ./configure -> make -> make install process went fine, or at least, I think so, as it completed without reporting errors or exiting.
...But maybe I'm doing something wrong as just a little while ago I was modifying _ssl.c but wasn't able to see those changes applied.

So I'm gonna ask: when I modify *.c files, do I have to do something else other than "./configure; make; make install" in order to see the changes applied?

Anyway, here's what you asked:


root@ubuntu:/home/giampaolo/svn/python-2.7# python
Python 2.7a4+ (trunk:79814, Apr  5 2010, 23:53:01) 
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import _ssl
>>> _ssl
<module '_ssl' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so'>
>>> _ssl.__file__
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so'
>>>