Mercurial missing _locale

[wobbet@…]

Running SnowLeopard on 32-bit MacBookPro2,2.

Config edited file to add +universal for all ports.

I performed a

sudo port clean --all all sudo port install python26 sudo port install mercurial

Both reported success.

When I attempt to execute

hg clone ...

I receive the following trace indicating that _locale is missing.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/local/bin/hg", line 27, in <module>

mercurial.dispatch.run()

File

"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 16, in run

sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))

File

"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 27, in dispatch

return _runcatch(u, args)

File

"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 97, in _runcatch

ui.warn(_("abort: could not import module %s!\n") % m)

File

"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/i18n.py", line 43, in gettext

return u.encode(encoding.encoding, "replace")

File

"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 75, in getattribute

self._load()

File

"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 47, in _load

mod = _origimport(head, globals, locals)

File

"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/encoding.py", line 22, in <module>

encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or 'ascii'

File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/locale.py",

line 531, in getpreferredencoding

import _locale

File

"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 84, in _demandimport

return _origimport(name, globals, locals, fromlist)

ImportError: No module named _locale