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When building this native extension, if you get messages such as:

1. python setup.py install
   running install
   running build
   running build_py
   creating build
   creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.5
   copying sctp.py → build/lib.linux-i686-2.5
   running build_ext
   building ‘_sctp’ extension
   creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.5
   gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/python2.5 -c sctp.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/sctp.o
   _sctp.c:8:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
   In file included from _sctp.c:15:
   sctp.h:74: error: redefinition of ‘struct sctpsetprim’
   sctp.c:17: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘_attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
   sctp.c:18: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘_attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
   sctp.c:19: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘_attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
   sctp.c:20: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘_attribute__’ before ‘*’ token

It means you need to install python-dev package, e.g.:
apt-get install python-dev