> Hrm. Aren't there OSes with a default limit of 63 open files per > process? I'm pretty sure there are some with 127 (signed char). We'll deal with those as we encounter them. All the mainstream platforms go much beyond that (just as we have left the 640 KB limit behind us :-). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)