Thomas Waldmann pointed out to me that the Xapian python bindings won't compile against python 2.5 (which is apparently likely to be released within a few days). I've made a patch against swig which fixes the problem, and attached it to a bug report against swig, at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1552530&group_id=1645&atid=101645 -- Richard