It looks like you are doing something funky with files at the beginning .. opening a file, writing some stuff to the file, then opening it again for reading (but you haven't closed it yet or seeked back to the beginning). This is odd.

So, apart from that, what happens when you try running it under the debugger?

--t. alex

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