Skip Montanaro wrote: > But wrong. ;-) os.access is almost never what you want. Try > os.path.exists() instead. Well, os.path.isfile anyway :-). -- Erik Max Francis && max at alcyone.com && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ __ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && &tSftDotIotE / \ The public is a fool. \__/ Alexander Pope