Hi, Sorry for the off-topic request, but I can't find anything by googling and I'm sure to talk to a crowd of expert Pythoneers, so... I'm building a CLI+GUI app for data analysis using wxpython and matplotlib for the GUI, and the Cmd standard Python module for the command line. The cli and the gui run in two separate threads. On Debian GNU/Linux the application works perfectly. I'm trying to get it working on Windows too. I'd like it to be able to work with the Enthought python distribution on Windows, that already includes 90% of the external libraries (scipy, numarray, wxpython etc.) I need, so people don't have to install a bazillion dependencies one by one to get it working -just a few must be downloaded in addition. This distribution ships Python 2.3.5. Now, on windows the GUI thread starts apparently correctly, but the CLI doesn't work and stops with the following error: Exception in thread Thread-1:Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python23\lib\threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap self.run() File "hooke.py", line 57, in run cli.cmdloop() File "C:\Python23\lib\cmd.py", line 109, in cmdloop self.preloop() File "C:\Python23\lib\cmd.py", line 152, in preloop import readline File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\__init__.py", line 1, in ? from PyReadline import * File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\PyReadline.py", line 1091, in ? rl = Readline() File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\PyReadline.py", line 46, in __ini t__ self.emacs_editing_mode(None) File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\PyReadline.py", line 1008, in ema cs_editing_mode self._bind_key('"%s"' % chr(c), self.self_insert) File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\PyReadline.py", line 1000, in _bi nd_key keyinfo = key_text_to_keyinfo(key) File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\keysyms.py", line 101, in key_tex t_to_keyinfo return keyseq_to_keyinfo(keytext[1:-1]) File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\keysyms.py", line 163, in keyseq_ to_keyinfo res.append(char_to_keyinfo(keyseq[0], control, meta, shift)) File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\keysyms.py", line 111, in char_to _keyinfo raise ValueError, 'bad key' ValueError: bad key I really can't understand how to patch the thing here. Any suggestion? Thanks again for your patience, m. -- Massimo Sandal University of Bologna Department of Biochemistry "G.Moruzzi" snail mail: Via Irnerio 48, 40126 Bologna, Italy email: massimo.sandal@unibo.it tel: +39-051-2094388 fax: +39-051-2094387