> the collections module was added in 2.4 Ah... sorry about that. I should have checked my example more closely. What I'm actually doing is rebinding some Queue.Queue behaviour in a "safe" location like this:
def _get(self): ret = self.queue.popleft() DoSomethingSimple() return ret And self.queue.popleft() used to be self.queue.pop(0). self.queue is a deque object in 2.4 so I just used transferred that unluckily to the post in a poor attempt to simplify it - I had no clue that it was new. Should have made one up from scratch. Anyway - it worked... you've answered my question perfectly, thanks. I hadn't considered that the module loading phase could basically used for preprocessing. You even helped by subtly providing a better version checker... I didn't even know you could use < with a tuple like that. I'll have to look into the logic rules there. Russ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
