Skip Montanaro writes: > Dumb-ass question: What's a "ucs4 build of Python" and how does one create > such a thing? I see no mention of ucs4 in the output from configure --help. Look at the --enable-unicode option. A ucs4 build is particularly desirable on RH9, since they're using a UCS4 build of Tcl/Tk. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation