--- gdl-0.9pre3/configure.python25	2006-11-22 07:58:06.000000000 -0700
+++ gdl-0.9pre3/configure	2006-12-18 14:01:50.000000000 -0700
@@ -20135,7 +20135,7 @@
    queryfile=$ac_confdir/query_version.py
    echo # tmp file auto (re)generated by GDL configure. Please delete > $queryfile
    echo import sys >> $queryfile
-   echo print sys.version.split\(\'.\'\)\[0\]+\".\"+sys.version.split\(\'.\'\)\[1\] >> $queryfile
+   echo print sys.version.split\(\)\[0\].split\(\'.\'\)\[0\]+\".\"+sys.version.split\(\)\[0\].split\(\'.\'\)\[1\] >> $queryfile
    PYTHON_VERSION=`python $queryfile`
    rm $queryfile
 fi