"Catalina Scott A Contr AFCA/EVEO" <scott.catalina.ctr at scott.af.mil> wrote in message news:mailman.2769.1141660114.27775.python-list at python.org... I was trying to compare each line of file1 with each line of file2. Your solution worked perfectly. Thanks! Scott =========================== See if the difflib module would be of any help. -- Paul