hjebbers wrote in news:2864756a-292b-4138-abfd- 3348b72b7...@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python:
> the information about the error is a windows dump. This may help: # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680621(VS.85).aspx SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS = 1 SEM_NOALIGNMENTFAULTEXCEPT = 4 SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX = 4 SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX = 8 import ctypes from ctypes.wintypes import UINT SetErrorMode = ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetErrorMode SetErrorMode.restype = UINT SetErrorMode.argtypes = ( UINT,) Then putting: SetErrorMode( SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX ) at the start of you programme, should stop the "Critical Error" dialog box you are seeing and you may get a chance to see a traceback. Rob. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list