Rossum's tutorial on Python states: "open() returns a file object, and is most commonly used with two arguments: 'open(filename, mode)' mode 'r+' opens the file for both reading and writing."
Here's a little session in Python's interactive window >>> f=open('mytext.txt','w+') >>> f.write('My name is Bob') >>> s=f.read() >>> s.len() >>> len(s) 4082 >>>f.close() If I open the file mytext.txt in Notepad I see something that begins with "My name is Bob VwMÚ¸x¶ Ð" and goes on for approximately 4082 characters. What's happening?? Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list