found the problem.... sorry for the ruckus! the problem is aptana. Doing this outside of aptana works fine... not sure why yet.
so, the problem is narrowed down. Once I figure out why aptana is mis- behaving, I'll post results.... Thanks for you help!! Mart :() On Apr 15, 3:29 pm, pbreit <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks to me like it might be stuck at the very beginning with "import > os". In MacOS terminal, can you do a simple "import os" in Python shell? > > $ python > > > > > > > > >>> import os

