Pivy problem and some other stuff

[Zentrader]

> What meaningless error message are you talking about!?
>
> Ciao,
>         Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

My mistake.  It appears that this is no longer the case.  And my
apologies.  It was probably in version 2.3 or earlier that this was a
problem.  Given the way that the Python community constantly improves
the language, I should have checked first, but "shoulds" don't count.