Finally deleted 2.2 and loaded 2.5 (see below), using the msi, on my XP partition. Having intermittent system crashes. Assumed a corrupt download, so deleted and did another download/install. Same problems.
The associated DLLs when XP says that it must shut down the idle shell are not consistent. So is there something not stable about ver 2.5 on XP ? Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Thanks very much from my cat and dog. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list