> Daniel, thanks for your input. What version of the JDK/JRE and Python > are you using? So the previous test was on python 2.4, java 1.4.2, suse 9.3 but now I ran it on python 2.3.5, java 1.4.2, gentoo 1.4.16 and your code still does what it supposed to do. I'm not sure if that is good new for you though :)