> You're right, I realised after playing with Tim's example that the > problem was that I wasn't calling close() on the codecs file. Adding > this after the f.write(html_text) seems to flush the buffer which means > that the content now gets written to the file.
Hi Frank, Quick note: it may be important to write and read from the file using binary mode "b". It's not so significant under Unix, but it is more significant under Windows, because otherwise we may get some weird results. Good luck! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor