Newbie problem with codecs

[derek / nul]

Good people

I am writing my first python program, so be gentle :-)
This program needs to r/w UTF16LE files.

When I run the program I get the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "apply_physics.py", line 12, in ?
    codecs.lookup(BOM_UTF16_LE)
NameError: name 'BOM_UTF16_LE' is not defined



Could someone point to my mistake please?

Derek


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#!c:/program files/python/python.exe
#
# win32 python 2.3

import sys, string
import codecs

codecs.lookup(BOM_UTF16_LE)