Thanks Simon! You are right.. I also believe it is something with Eclipse.
I've been working since... the module below runs.. but Eclipse is still showing an error when I reference urlopen with a little red X... saying it is an undefined variable in the IDE.. but not giving me an runtime errors. #URL LIBRARY from urllib2 import * def openfilereadaline(a): f = open(a) print f for line in f: print line.rstrip() f.close() def openWebSite(a): ur = urlopen(a) #open url contents = ur.readlines()#readlines from url file fo = open("test.txt", "w")#open test.txt for line in contents: print "writing %s to a file" %(line,) fo.write(line)#write lines from url file to text file fo.close()#close text file if __name__ == '__main__': openWebSite("http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread161312.html") print "Hello World" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list