I applied the patch in this bug to the trunk. As it's a bug, and a very nasty one (it causes an ugly crash), please consider backporting it to 2.5.x. If you apply this to 2.5.x, just close the bug. Regards, -- . Facundo . Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/