requirements do not pull in sqlite3

[MrSecure]

$ python ./bin/django-admin.py syncdb
....
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading either pysqlite2 or sqlite3 modules (tried in that order): No module named _sqlite3

Testing on FreeBSD 9.1; Installed devel/py-virtualenv from ports & it pulled in the core parts of python. Following the instructions to create a Brownian virtual env & activiate it, I see django & friends get downloaded and set up, but the syncdb command dies with the error above.

Thanks.