praetorien@Wintermute:/usr/bin$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall python python-minimal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  ttf-umefont gnome-exe-thumbnailer ruby1.9.1-examples nspluginwrapper apache2-mpm-worker ruby1.9.1-dev libtcltk-ruby1.9.1 libaprutil1-ldap apache2.2-common lib32nss-mdns
  libruby1.9.1-dbg winetricks libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 ttf-symbol-replacement apache2.2-bin icoutils wine1.2-gecko cabextract python-wicd libruby1.9.1 ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  winbind ttf-droid
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up python-minimal (2.7.1-0ubuntu5.1) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/compileall.py", line 16, in <module>
    import struct
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/struct.py", line 1, in <module>
    from _struct import *
ImportError: No module named _struct
dpkg: error processing python-minimal (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python:
 python depends on python-minimal (= 2.7.1-0ubuntu5.1); however:
  Package python-minimal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-dev:
 python-dev depends on python (= 2.7.1-0ubuntu5.1); however:
  Package python is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-dev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-httplib2:
 python-httplib2 depends on python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2); however:
  Package python is not configured yet.
 python-httplib2 depends on python (<< 2.8); however:
  Package python is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-httplib2 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 python-minimal
 python
 python-dev
 python-httplib2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)