I was thinking that the user could just define the delimiter character due to the differences amongst delimiters used in OS's... but if that isn't a problem (Skip seemed to think it wouldn't be) then my solution is functionally identical to the first one he proposed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20081229/f0d87546/attachment.htm>