Ah, sorry, found the answer myself (not that I wasn't looking for it for days...): I was aware that the recipe is online at ActiveState's site (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/81549), but I didn't read all of the comments carefully:
KAMOSAWA Masao wrote on 2006/04/29 that the use of dotted functions is disabled by default in the server (from Python 2.4 onwards). But it can be enabled with: server.register_instance(StringFunctions(), allow_dotted_names = True) =Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
