Steve Holden wrote: [snip] >Could be the OP is using Cygwin, which won't support threading by >default and will give very confusing results
Thanks Steve, Well your guess was better then mine :) I didn't know Cygwin did not support threads by default , I will have to remember that. Why do you suppose he is having problems with this on Linux? I am not on a Linux box to test it. M.E.Farmer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list