PyDev: Fatal Error Python32\lib\io.py, Line 60, In

I work in PyDev and quite suddenly, I cannot run my python programs from within Eclipse's PyDev (version 2.1.0) anymore. Any python program I have ran through Run As > Python R

Solution 1:

I have finally found out where the problem came from: I had a file called stat.py and this is apparently creating a conflict with Lib/stat.py

Unfortunately the error message was very obscure. And I just don't understand why pyDev behaves differently than python.exe