Tim Peters wrote: > [Andrew MacIntyre] Hmm... I don't appear to have explained what I meant very well :-|
{...} > This really needs an executable example. Here's my best guess about > what you mean, but I don't see any of what you're describing on WinXP > Pro SP2: And a pretty good guess it was too! Although I hadn't expected/intended any research to be applied to my note (except if the original problem involved undeletable files on the buildbots), I'm relieved your experiment turned up no problem; it makes the case stronger against something in the local setup. FWIW, the particular cases I remember seeing involved applications built with ctypes and Venster (Win32 GUI wrapper over ctypes) with a lot of COM calls, with Python 2.2.3. >> I've never reported this as a Python bug > > If you do, I'll probably add a comment like the above ;-) ;-) >> because I've considered the antivirus SW likely to be the culprit. > > Could be. FWIW, Norton AV was running during the above. The anti-virus on my work XP Pro SP2 system has been a source of considerable annoyance in many situations, so its the first thing I blame... >> I don't recall seeing this with Windows 2000, but much was changed >> in the transition from the Win2k SOE to the WinXP SOE. > > What's that? Shitty Out-of-box Experience ;-)? That too! Our outsourced IT supplier seems to think it means Standard Operating Environment, but I haven't figured out what's "standard" about it... Cheers, Andrew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pref) | Snail: PO Box 370 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alt) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com