pysqlite 2.0.5 - python 2.4

I might be totally stupid but it seems to me that pysqlite 2.0.5
doesn't work with python 2.4:

Python 2.4 (#1, Nov 30 2004, 11:25:14)
[GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite
>>> con = sqlite.connect( ":memory:" )
>>> cur = con.cursor( )
>>> cur.execute( "create table t ( x int )" )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
pysqlite2.dbapi2.Warning: You can only execute one statement at a time.

Sorry if the docs mention this but I couldn't find it anywhere and I
hope I don't miss something totally obvious :)

In the previous post
http://lists.initd.org/pipermail/pysqlite/2006-May/000556.html I
described how versions beyond 2.0.6 segfault apache, now it seems
2.0.5 doesn't work with python 2.4 so I can't use python 2.4 with
apache at all.

Any suggestion for a workaround? (Apart from using python 2.3 which
would be pretty sad as I would like to use decorators..)