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Message: [QUOTE="Dave Angel, post: 4135574"] There's no global variable content, that was local to the function. So it's lost when the function exits. it does return the value, but you give it to print, and don't save it anywhere. data = getPDFContent(r"C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii", "ignore") outfile = open('x.txt', 'w') outfile.write(data) close(outfile) I used a different name to emphasize that this is *not* the same variable as content inside the function. In this case, it happens to have the same value. And if you used the same name, you could be confused about which is which. DaveA [/QUOTE]