On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Ethan Furman wrote: > reader = csv.reader(open("test.txt","r"), > delimiter="|", > quotechar="'") > output = csv.writer(open("out.txt","w"), > delimiter="|", > quotechar="'") Ethan, How are these opened files closed? csv.reader() and csv.writer() have no close method. Rich