On Fri, 19 May 2000, Bart Holthuijsen wrote: > from sys import * > from os import * ^^^^ Here's the culprit. The "os" module defines an "open" function. Don't import "*". Ever. -- Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com