On 10/26/2011 10:38 AM, Tim Golden wrote: > On 26/10/2011 02:11, Terry Reedy wrote: >> OP reports 2.6 with XP works. > > Where do you see that, Terry? (Or was there an offlist email?) The first message of http://bugs.python.org/issue8036 "Python 2.6 is however happy and just reports invalid arg." -- Terry Jan Reedy