"Tim Rowe" <digitig at cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:memo.20010803215850.16469f at digitig.compulink.co.uk... > Just a quick reminder that the reason I can't get any sysadmin to let me > use Python is that all the ones I encounter consider Python too unstable > for serious work. I see their point :-( Compared to what? I'm am acually curious. Terry J. Reedy