Hi Found the error.
The error was not the codepage of the setup.py, but the codepage of the imported file _common . Once it got chtag -tc 1047 _common.py I got further. Thanks for the input. BR Frank Allan Rasmussen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN