> How exactly are you starting the Python interpreter? "No such file or > directory" on file creation can happen when you try to create a file > in a directory that has ceased to exist:
Damn...now it's time to be ashamed. Because of my new installation of leopard I used another computername. So the path were I wanted to write to didn't exist any more. Previous : /users/dirkheld/programming/python/.... Now : /users/dirk/programming/python/... Sorry for keeping you guys busy with such a mistake ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list