fishers: >Can Python be used to do 'high-level' file processing. for example, >appending one file to another? And if so, how? The 'high level' functions are in the module shutil. You could use shutil.copyfileobj(), with dst opened for appending (see the mode parameter of file()). -- René Pijlman Wat wil jij leren? http://www.leren.nl