snip... > > I'm just as stumped as I was when you first asked this question 13 > minutes ago. ;-) > > regards > Steve > snip...
Hi Steve, Think I found it, for example: line = 'my big string' line.encode('ascii', 'ignore') I processed the problem strings during parsing with this and it works now. Got this from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2365411/python-convert-unicode-to-ascii-without-errors Best, Lee :^) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list