BINGO! Perfect function! GOD?**** windows. BUT THANK YOU! (walks off mumbling curses at the billster of gates...)
Kent Johnson wrote: > Kirk Bailey wrote: >> a relevant code snip: >> >> if os.path.exists('ConfigureMe'): >> f1=open('ConfigureMe','r') >> tablebgcolor=string.strip(f1.readline()) >> >> Eacj line in the file contains color configuration information to >> include into a webpage later on (for instance, 'peach, 'wjhite', >> 'black', 'Blue'). >> >> tablebgcolor contains the entire text file being read, not one line. >> >> this program opereates in a windows 2000 environment if this helps any. > > My guess is that the file contains non-native newlines. Try opening it > with universal newline support using > f1=open('ConfigureMe','rU') > > Kent > > -- Salute! -Kirk Bailey Think +-----+ | BOX | +-----+ knihT Fnord. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor