Sorry about the previous message; a mail munger somewhere between my display and python.org choked on a very long line... I am getting an occasional, hard-to-reproduce error in test_minidom. When I run the test, it displays about a thousand lines of garbage, but the test suite does not report test_minidom as failed or skipped. The output I see during the test run is this: test_minidom garbage: [{'nodeValue': u'Obsolete but implemented...', 'nextSibling': <DOM Text node "\012">, 'childNodes': None, 'attributes': None, 'parentNode': None, 'data': u'Obsolete but implemented...', 'previousSibling': None}, <DOM Text node "Obsolete b...">, {'nodeValue': u'\012', 'nextSibling': None, 'childNodes': None, 'a [... many hundreds of lines omitted] At the end of the test, I get a pretty normal result: 95 tests OK. 13 tests skipped: test_al test_cd test_cl test_dbm test_dl test_gl test_imgfile test_largefile test_nis test_sunaudiodev test_timing test_winreg test_winsound So two questions: Why is test_minidom producing all this output? And why is it only happening intermittently? Why does regrtest.py think that test_minidom is working correctly when it produces all this output? Jeremy