diff --git a/playground/strip/strip.py b/playground/strip/strip.py
index 3e7662bd..a6c4549e 100644
--- a/playground/strip/strip.py
+++ b/playground/strip/strip.py
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ from waflib import Task, TaskGen
 class strip(Task.Task):
 	run_str = '${STRIP} ${SRC}'
 	color   = 'BLUE'
+	after   = ['cprogram', 'cxxprogram', 'cshlib', 'cxxshlib', 'fcprogram', 'fcshlib']
 
 @TaskGen.feature('strip')
 @TaskGen.after('apply_link')
 def add_strip_task(self):
 	try:
 		link_task = self.link_task
-	except:
+	except AttributeError:
 		return
-	tsk = self.create_task('strip', self.link_task.outputs[0])
+	self.create_task('strip', link_task.outputs[0])