About this line: 1585 if sys.path[0][-12:] == "\library.zip": #for py2exe
pl... suggested: if sys.path[0].endswith( "\\library.zip" ): and said, "did you really mean one back-slash there?". You responded "yeah, one backslash", but I still don't believe you. In this case, it happens to work, but you should be aware that the back-slash is an escape character, which causes the next character to be interpreted differently. Try this in your interpreter: print "\a" # System bell - might cause your speaker to beep print "\t" # Tab character print "\n" # Newline character / sequence See http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/ref/strings.html for more details on the escape sequences that Python recognizes. Here's a summary: if the backslash + character is a special escape code, then replace it with that, otherwise assume the programmer meant a real backslash. That's dangerous, and will break when the name changes from one that starts with an L to one that starts with an A, B, F, N, etc. The safe way it to tell Python "Yes, I really want a backslash", which is indicated with the double backslash: print "\\library.zip" If you don't use the double backslash, you'll eventually have a problem, especially in Windows, which unfortunately uses the backslash as a directory seperator. You might also want to look at os.sep and the os.path.* functions, if you are interested in making your code work on different platforms. JW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list