If you email the script to me, I'd be happy to take a look at it and see if I come up with the same error (I'm running IDLE on a Windows XP box here, cant remember if the filesystem is FAT or NTFS ;-))
Although as a relative newbie I've never come across it myself, one possible source of such mysterious errors in Python, apparently, is mixing tabs and spaces in your indentation. Its also one of the few factors I can think of that would have been lost in the email-copy-paste process, which could explain why the code snippet works on my machine and not yours. My only other suggestion is to try my personal first rule for fixing mysterious, unusual bugs in small, trivial pieces of code - which is to delete the whole thing and type it out again from scratch. It works surprisingly often. Good luck - Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
