You're right, but the moment I append it onto a list, it would become C:\\moo.
arrPlaces = [] intPoint =0 while (len(testline)): testline = fileName.readline() print testline arrPlaces[intPoint].append(testline) intPoint += 1 print arrPlaces > C:\moo > C:\supermoo > ['C:\\moo', 'C:\\supermoo'] Is there a way to stop that when appending to the dictionary? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list