Ralf Schmitt wrote: > Uwe Grauer <news at grauer-online.de> writes: > > >>Now i tried it under Linux (Suse 8.2) + self compiled python 2.3.2. >>It works!! >>So, what the hell is going on with my stupid win2000? > > > maybe opening the file in binary mode helps (i.e. open(infile, "rb")) ? > > Indeed, you are right. Thanks Uwe