> the mail you replied to talked about a module-level open() function, > not a class method. You're right. Rereading my mail, I mention class methods, but it was not clear that I was talking about tarfile.TarFile.open(), not tarfile.open(). Sorry. -- Gustavo Niemeyer [ 2AAC 7928 0FBF 0299 5EB5 60E2 2253 B29A 6664 3A0C ]