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Hi,

i just rechecked the problem with the ascii-encoding and it´s actually less a problem than i thought it is. It was actually bug in my patch. On

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#porting-to-python-3-2, it says:

"struct.pack() now only allows bytes for the s string pack code. Formerly, it would accept text arguments and implicitly encode them to bytes using UTF-8. This was problematic because it made assumptions about the correct encoding and because a variable-length encoding can fail when writing to fixed length segment of a structure."

So since Python3.2 struct.pack did an implicit encoding of string-data using UTF8-encoding which since Python3.2 has to be done explicitly. In my patch i therefore added "s.encode()" which uses the python standard string encoding (which apparently was set to "ascii" at Manuels computer) instead of "utf-8" like it did before. So changing this to s.encode("utf-8") should produce the same behaviour in Python2.6 and also work with Python3.2 even if your standard string-encoding is set to "ascii".

Sorry about that.

@Ken: Do you want me to send a patch for this issue?

Cheers

Michi