Hi Using PythonWin 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32. (win32all build 148) on windows XP. print 'largestring'*1000 --> CRASH (apparently in scintilla.dll) (also works fine in console python.exe) Is this a known problem? Regards Irmen de Jong