In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, apriebe47 wrote: > configfile = file('config.txt', 'w') > serverPassword = configfile.readline()
Here you open a file for writing and try to read a line. This raises an exception: In [1]: configfile = file('test.txt', 'w') In [2]: configfile.readline() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- exceptions.IOError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/marc/<ipython console> IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor Please post the exact code you have trouble with. Don't retype it -- copy and paste it. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list