Thanks, Tim that did work. I will proceed with my playing around now. Thanks a ton.
Atul. > > Only slightly. You're importing the codecs module > but you're not using it. So you're *actually* using > the built-in open function, which doesn't have an > encoding parameter. It does have a third param > which is to do with the buffer size. > > Just change your code to use codecs.open ("...") > and, I suggest, either use raw strings for your > filename (r"c:\docume...") or use the other kind > of slash ("c:/documen..."). Otherwise you might > run into some problems. > > TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list