In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it reads a file saved this way: > ---------------------- > import pickle > > class chatuser: #container for storing user information... > login = "" > authcode = "" > cookie = "" > ip = "" > loggedin = 0 > invalid_logins = 0 > allow_login = 1 > status = "" > realname = "" > phone = "" > email = "" > > derek = chatuser
If this is copy and pasted and not just a typo then `derek` is just another name for the `chatuser` class now and not an *instance* of it. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list