(a bit behind - having mail problems on my new Powerbook...) Neal> Is anyone else having problems with 2.2.2 tests? Neal> minidom & sax fail for me on Linux: ... On MacOS 10.2 I'm not getting that far. In test_builtin it gets into the list test then gobbles up all of memory. It appears the list(xrange(sys.maxint/4)) test is the culprit. This is on 2.2.2 and 2.3. Skip