> > Thanks a lot Serhiy to you and to everyone else. > > > Do you mind telling us what fix you applied?
Oh, apologies Peter, I thought it was clear as I posted it after the lines written by Serhiy. So it was what Serhiy suggest in addition to some (?minor?) modification to the pipe itself, which I cannot comment about as I don't have access to it. But apparently the problem of not being able to open it was due to it. (It does not help much I am afraid... but that's all I know). Mik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list