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@gri: You'll excuse me if I'm a bit agitated but your "help" seems to be suggesting things to be done that have either a) already been tried (ctypes) or b) aren't possible by your own admission or c) without any proof of how trivial it would be imply that it would be trivial when it isn't. If it were trivial it would have already been done. In the case that it is trivial and something obvious is being missing, patches are welcome.

This seems to have worked for me, qwerty12, and a few others. You have offered...what exactly?

Anyways, I'm sure I'm out of line, particularly because it's not my project, but I grow tired of some people suggesting implementations or features when they themselves haven't even offered any code. Hell, I even submitted a patch to a project I wasn't particularly interested in but seemed to be non-functional the other night (easyplayer).
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Perhaps I'll say nothing more in these threads and continue to just submit patches....