Hello, I finally could solve the problem on my own. These two articles helped me a lot: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/excerpt/pythonckbk_chap1/ http://www.reportlab.com/i18n/python_unicode_tutorial.html
I simply had to ensure that all the file names I got from the m3u file were in unicode format. I do that by simply running "unicode" over every filename I extract from the m3u files: self.pathList.append(unicode(eachLine[:-1],"latin-1")) Severin -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor