> Is this a real problem? No, it is caused by the way purify checks things. > Should it be corrected? No. > I could have Purify ignore the warning, but it is awful. If you want to run with purify, that's your best option. > I remember a bug on SourceForge about a crash on an obscure platform, > is it related? No. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)