The code contains if not hasattr(file, "read"): file = open(file,'r') so it should work. 2009/3/9 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>: > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.fromregex.html#numpy.fromregex > says 'str or file', but I don't think it takes str, only file name