Is there any reason why the default directory for .pyds seems to be the base python install dir rather than the DLLs directory underneath it? Normally .lib files would go to say c:\Python\Libs and the corresponding .pyd would go to c:\Python\DLLs I have a pure C extension and it therefore has no natural package home so I would normally put that into DLLs, but it seems to be copied into the base dir. -- Robin Becker