"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > But won't if fail since the variabls in the file are not quoted?
No the quoting is only necessary if you use eval/exec. The quotes prevent the interpreter from treating them as variable names. If you read the values from the file they are already strings, no need for quoting. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor