On Friday 05 July 2002 11:48 am, Laurie Nason wrote: > I just did this with a file: > my_file =3D split(file.data,'\r\n') > the .data returns the contents of the file >=20 > hth >=20 > Laurie BTW file.data is only the first chunk of the file's data (currently 64Kb = in=20 size). So the above will truncate a file to 64K. To get the entire conten= ts=20 of a file object, use: data =3D str(file) -Casey