JohnV wrote: > What I want to do is compare the old data (lets day it is saved to a
file called 'lastdata.txt') with the new data (lets day it is saved to a file called 'currentdata.txt') and save the new appended data to avariable
You may get away with something like: (untested) newdata=open('currentdata.txt').read()[len(open('lastdata.txt').read()):] HTH, Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list