resending because the mail system was confused : > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote: > - ret = open( systemPath , "a" ) > + ret = file( systemPath , "a" ) > > So why is this needed? see http://docs.python.org/release/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#builtins file is removed, you must used open