In the most recent CVS checkout on the trunk, test_unicode_file has started to fail. Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "../Lib/test/test_unicode_file.py", line 61, in ? if base not in os.listdir(path): UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128) This is on Linux (Red Hat 6.2, still). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)