Hi, A new ticket on the scipy trac (http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/1136) reports a problem with scipy.misc.ppimport. Not long ago I fixed a couple blatant typos in ppimport.py (because of another ticket, http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/1133), but I didn't actually try to use the ppimport() function. I think this code has problems. There was code in there that could never have worked, and there are no tests. I'm not going to have time to work on ppimport, and after a little searching, I wonder if anyone should bother. In scipy trunk, the only actual use of anything related to ppimport is in the info() function in misc.helpmod.py, and it just checks if the object for which info is being requested has attributes assigned by ppimport. But if nothing else in scipy actually uses ppimport, the code in info() is moot. All the info.py files of the various scipy packages contain 'postpone_import = 1', but I don't see any code that actually uses this variable. What's the history of ppimport? Why does it exist in scipy? Pearu Peterson worked on this several years ago, but it is not clear to me how it is currently used. Can we simply get rid of it, or am I missing something? Warren