sam> does anyone know why i'm getting 'there is no installed viewer sam> capable of displaying the document'?
You probably need to associate files having .py file extensions with the Python interpreter. You've given no indication of the environment you're using other than "Solaris 10". There are several different desktop environments available. On my machine I have "Common Desktop Environment", "Java Desktop System, Release 3" (really, it's mostly Gnome) and "Open Windows". I imagine how you make that association is different for each desktop environment. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list