Hi Chris... > It sounds to me like you're trying to pull off a classic buffer > overrun and remote code execution exploit, in someone else's Python > program. And all I have to say is.... Good luck to you. Talking of nefarious usage... I wonder what this would do left unchecked on a current machine and current Python install... ### global somestring somestring = " " while 1: #print somestring somestring = somestring + " " ### -- 73... Bazza, G0LCU... Team AMIGA... http://homepages.tesco.net/wisecracker/ http://main.aminet.net/search?readme=wisecracker http://mikeos.berlios.de/