Slick. Thanks. Alex Martelli wrote: > "Garth Grimm" <garth_grimm at hp.com> wrote in message > news:3BA0CC8E.1050705 at hp.com... > ... > >>encodings? Now that I think of it, I don't recall any file open methods >> > that took encoding > > The codecs standard module has that. > > > Alex > > > >