Doing an "import numpy" fails with a traceback:

Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Mar 17 2009, 11:44:14) 
[GCC 4.4.0 20090313 (Red Hat 4.4.0-0.26)] on linux2
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>>> import numpy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 130, in <module>
    import add_newdocs
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/add_newdocs.py", line 9, in <module>
    from lib import add_newdoc
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/lib/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from polynomial import *
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/lib/polynomial.py", line 18, in <module>
    from numpy.linalg import eigvals, lstsq
ImportError: No module named linalg
>>>