Oops. See python.org/sf/812007 Python 2.3.1 (#1, Sep 24 2003, 15:55:24) [GCC 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from os import fsync Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: cannot import name fsync >>>