I found the bug and hope I have squashed it. Single and qouble quoted strings that were assignments and spanned multilines using \ , were chopped after the first line. example: __date__ = 'Apr 16, 2005,' \ 'Jan 15 2005,' \ 'Oct 24 2004' became: __date__ = 'Apr 16, 2005,' \
Not good :( tokenizer sends this as: name operator string string string newline I added test for string assignments that end in \. A flag is set and then all strings till a newline are ignored. Also rearranged the script a little. Maybe that will do it ... Updates available at > The script is located at: > http://bellsouthpwp.net/m/e/mefjr75/python/stripper.py > > M.E.Farmer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list