sure [tas354@lionxo 20090603]$ uname -a Linux lionxo.aset.psu.edu 2.6.9-78.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Jul 22 18:01:05 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [tas354@lionxo 20090603]$ [tas354@lionxo 20090603]$ cat /etc/*-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 7) [tas354@lionxo 20090603]$ [tas354@lionxo 20090603]$ boost_adaptbx.show_platform_info __FILE__ = /net/anaconda/scratch1/phenix/phenix-1.4-85/cctbx_project/boost_adaptbx/meta_ext.cpp __DATE__ = Jun 3 2009 __TIME__ = 01:57:06 __x86_64__ __linux __GNUC__ = 3 __GNUC_MINOR__ = 4 __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ = 2 boost::python::cxxabi_cxa_demangle_is_broken(): false __GXX_WEAK__ = 1 __LP64__ = 1 __VERSION__ = 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3) FE_INEXACT = 32 FE_DIVBYZERO = 4 FE_UNDERFLOW = 16 FE_OVERFLOW = 8 FE_INVALID = 1 FE_ALL_EXCEPT = 61 __SSE2__ = 1 PY_VERSION = 2.6.2 PYTHON_API_VERSION = 1013 sizeof(bool) = 1 sizeof(short) = 2 sizeof(int) = 4 sizeof(long) = 8 sizeof(std::size_t) = 8 sizeof(void*) = 8 sizeof(long long) = 8 sizeof(float) = 4 sizeof(double) = 8 sizeof(long double) = 16 sizeof(boost::int32_t) = 4 sizeof(boost::uint32_t) = 4 sizeof(wchar_t) = 4 Py_USING_UNICODE sizeof(PY_UNICODE_TYPE) = 2 gnu libc version: 2.3.4 number of processors: 2 sys.byteorder: little import thread: OK "hello" = ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'] u"hello" = ['h', '\x00', 'e', '\x00', 'l', '\x00', 'l', '\x00', 'o', '\x00'] u"\u00C5" = ['\xc5', '\x00'] as utf-8 = ['\xc3', '\x85'] LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE = Ã