I tried that to and it didn't work, got the same message Thanks though, "Giovanni Bajo" <raNOsky at deveSPAMler.com> wrote in message news:dqgrng$t2o$1 at nnrp.ngi.it... > Waguy wrote: > >> import zipfile >> file = zipfile.ZipFile("c:\\chessy.zip", "r") > > > Use "rb". > -- > Giovanni Bajo > >