Bob Piton wrote: > I think what he is hinting at is that you are missing a right parentheses. > > msgNum = int(split(msg, " ")[0] > should be: > msgNum = int(split(msg, " "))[0] Or more likely: msgNum = int(split(msg, " ")[0])
> msgSize = int(split(msg, " ")[1] > should be: > msgSize = int(split(msg, " "))[1] Similarly: msgSize = int(split(msg, " ")[0]) More readably: msgNum, msgSize = [int(text) for text in split(msg, " ")[:2]] > Now if only somebody would tell me, with elementary examples, how you > write to the thing called 'stdout' and how you read from 'stdin'. import sys print 'parrot' # writes to sys.stdout print >>None, 'limburger' # Also writes to sys.stdout print >>sys.stdout, 'roquefort' # Also writes to sys.stdout sys.stdout.write('Shropshire -- the cheese of the gods\n) # Also oneline = raw_input('prompt: ') # reads from sys.stdin for line in sys.stdin: # reads line from sys.stdin print 'The current line is: %r' % line if not line.strip(): break chunk = sys.stdin.read(23) # reads a series of bytes from sys.stdin Warning: idle does not implement line iteration as in the for loop. Also the read in both line iteration and .read(N) may well read the input in "block mode", so you may have to type-ahead or end with an end-of-file (^D for Unix, ^Z for Windows) before it starts processing the lines. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list