Hi Piet, Here is a real code example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/948119/preventing-file-handle-inheritance-in-multiprocessing-lib
As I said before, I had provide pseudocode. I cannot close the file after reading because it is part of a class and other threads may be calling member functions which read from the file. Isaac -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
