Raymond Hettinger writes: > Since that solution is friendly to existing apps, do you think > it is reasonable to backport it? I'd be happy with that; not handling those entries is a bug in my book (using the netrc(5) manpage as my critical reference), so it's very reasonable to backport. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation