Tim & Barry,
It looks like the is some problem with Mailman that is garbling
messages to python-dev. It may only affect lines that begin with a
tab; not sure.
Your most recent message came through with the following line
> dTHXo;
(This was not the only example.)
I think this was supposed to be a line of C code, but whatever
meaningful contents it had were rendered as gobbledygook.
Jeremy