<chris.nelson at bwc.state.oh.us> wrote in message news:94k9p5$vs2$1 at nnrp1.deja.com... > Ultimately I'm looking for sytax that will > ignore processing a file if it is empty. os.stat(file) will yeild a tuple including st_size. the stat module defines indices, so if os.stat(file)[ST_SIZE] == 0: pass or somesuch