Hi, I was just wondering if it might be possible to raise an ImportError instead of terminating python; look what I get: haase@doe:~: python Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import numpy import sys sys.path.append("PrCyg") from Priithon import seb RuntimeError: module compiled against version 1000000 of C-API but this version of numpy is 1000002 Fatal Python error: numpy.core.multiarray failed to import... exiting.

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. haase@doe:~: Assume that you are running an interactive session, analysing some important[;-)] data. Then you think: "Oh, I should try this one (maybe little old) module on this" ... so you try to import ... and ... suddenly the entire python application crashes. When your shell application runs without a terminal you don't even get to read the error message ! - Sebastian Haase