AWS ec2 winreg not found

I'm trying to run a python app from amazon EC2 large instance. However, Its complaining in scipy because it can't find a thing called _winreg.

I don't know how to reconfigure this so its no longer an issue.

""" python2 app.py * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit) * Restarting with stat import _winreg as winregTraceback (most recent call last): File "app.py", line 111, in app = create_app().run(debug=True) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 772, in run run_simple(host, port, self, **options) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/werkzeug/serving.py", line 622, in run_simple reloader_type) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/werkzeug/_reloader.py", line 265, in run_with_reloader reloader.run() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/werkzeug/_reloader.py", line 155, in run for filename in chain(_iter_module_files(), self.extra_files): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/werkzeug/_reloader.py", line 70, in _iter_module_files for package_path in getattr(module, 'path', ()): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/lib/six.py", line 116, in getattr _module = self._resolve() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/lib/six.py", line 105, in _resolve return _import_module(self.mod) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/lib/six.py", line 76, in _import_module import(name) ImportError: No module named _winreg """