"John La Rooy" <larooy at xtar.co.nz> wrote in message news:20020702121832.51ed39eb.larooy at xtar.co.nz... > On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 00:11:17 GMT > "news" <ld @ nospam.com> wrote: > perhaps the file has the windows EOF character in it? ctrl-D or ctrl-Z i think. > try > > f=open('myfile','rb') That did the trick!!! Thank you so much!!! Larry