Earl, Please post the smallest snippet of code you can which illustrates your problem. No list is an unsubscriptable object, so you seem to be passing something that is not a list to your function.
As it stands, you don't give enough information to give an actual answer. Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:05:18 -0700, Earl Eiland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a program in which I'm passing a list to functions. When I > reference an element in a function to which it is passed, I get the > error message "unsubscriptable object". When printing the list contents > in that same function, I get "xxx is <Reader object at 0xyyyy>". How do > I pass a list? > > Earl Eiland > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list