> No, this seems like a worse cure then the cause... > Why not put the whole if (RAND_status()) thing under the ifdef? > It was only added in 2.1, so at least we would be no worse off then in 2.0 Moshe, please mail me a specific patch. I don't know the code well enough to guess what you mean! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)