11 Jan
                
                    2008
                
            
            
                11 Jan
                
                '08
                
            
            
            
        
    
                1:40 p.m.
            
        I have cleaned up the code after passing it by someone with more python experience than I have.
I have changed to popen3 to swallow the error codes (oddly enough, they don't appear in the windows version - no stderr, I guess).
Attached in launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/182002
-Rob A>