On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:49:51 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: > This is the actual code: > > source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r") > for line in source_file: > print line.strip() > > print "Exiting" > print "I used file: " + file Have you verified that the bz file is good by opening it in another application? -- Steven