Brian Blazer enlightened us with: > def getCurrentClasses(): > classes = [] > print 'Please enter the class name. When finished enter D.' > while (c != "D"):
No need for the parentheses, and 'c' doesn't have a value yet. If you add 'c=""' before the while-loop, it should be fine. > c = raw_input("Enter class name") > if (c != "D"): Here there is also no need for parentheses. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list