Running the script you recommended, I get d:\python>hansen.py cbfindfiles .\cbfindfiles.pyc .\cbfindfiles.py d:\python\cbfindfiles.pyc d:\python\cbfindfiles.py
If I use XP search, searching all drives for any file with cbfindfiles in the name, I get just the two in d:\python. It has something to do with importing the cbfindfiles.py file as a module, right? Because I just did that, and now the .py and .pyc files are synchronized, and I'm getting the same result when I run cbfindfiles or cbfindfiles.py, whereas before I was not. Thank you so much for your generous help. Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list