Sry about the previous mail. ----- Original Message -----
I have a print statement in a for loop so I can watch the progress for line in file(file): the_line = line.split() if the_line: print ("Index = %.2f") %index Is there a way that only one line will be output and the variable is updated rather than one line for every index. ------------------------- Now I'm still only in the learning process, but couldn't you do something like this: for line in file(file): the_line = line.split() if the_line: Index = "%.2f" %index # This line might have to be # adjusted to do what it is you want print "Index= " + Index BR Ole PS heres to hoping the code is indented properbly. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor