"Michael Bacarella" <mbac at gpshopper.com> writes: > > id2name[key >> 40][key & 0x10000000000] = name > Oops, typo. It's actually: > Id2name[key >> 40][key & 0xffffffffff] = name Are you saying this is a patch that appeared after python 2.3? Somehow I don't think it's come up in this thread whether you've tried any later versions.