Without further checking I would propose you let WingIDE ignore this exception - most probably WingIDE is choking on a exception that was thrown intentionally by the module writer.
I hope you know how to let WingIDE ignore exceptions? (In the upper part of the Exceptions-tool click on 'Ignore this exception location')... hope this helps.
Goan. It does help, thanks Marco. I was working with totally the wrong paradigm. I was assuming the reported exception was uncaught (that's how Komodo works) ... it was a very confusing place to be late at night - WingIDE bug seemed the only explanation, although it was puzzling me that something so obvious could make it through their QA. Thanks again.
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