Thanks for the output. akean, I've installed ipython and I'm exploring it. Thanks.
Terry, from what I've read stringIO allows us to store strings in a 'virtual' file. Can you please write just 2 lines exemplifying a write to and a read from an OS level file? MRAB, that 'mail' object should've been the os level 'mail' file. But as I'm a beginner I was using it wrong.. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list