Sigh. The 2.3.2 windows binary contains invalid MS dlls. I copied them from my system directory, instead of using those of the MSVC 6 SP5 redistributables. There are already 3 bug reports about this: http://www.python.org/sf/818029, http://www.python.org/sf/824016, and http://www.python.org/sf/823405. Strongy affected are probably win98 and NT4 users. I suggest to remove the Python-2.3.2.exe from the downloads page (or to hide it), until this issue is resolved. FWIW, Python-2.3.1.exe should have the same problem. All this is, of course, only my fault. Thomas