>but it is frustrating me that if I try to inherit from file it >works fine for regular files
I don't think that is correct characterization at all. What really happens is that when you inherit from file, your class works when you send the __init__ method a string, i.e. a filename. sys.stdout is not a string. Presumably, when you have a file object like sys.stdout already, you don't need to turn it into a file object, and therefore file's init() method is not defined to accept a file object. >Is it just a bad idea to inherit from file to >create a class to write to stdout or am I missing something? It seems to me that the very nature of a file object is to read and write to itself. Yet, in some cases you want your file object to be able to write to another file object. Why would you want your object to be a file object if you can't use any of its methods? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
