Okay, so I manged to kludge around the issue by not using the .readline() in my 'for' statement. Instead, I'm slurping the whole file into a new list that I put in for that purpose, and everything seems to be working just fine. However, I don't know WHY the other method failed and I'm at a loss for why that didn't work and this is working. I'd really like to know the why about this issue so that I don't have to use crappy coding practice and kludge around it the next time I have an issue like this.
Any ideas much appreciated. Damon G. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list