well what exactly are you trying to do? just so I can get a better idea. I've never had to us namespaces in my scripts so I may not be able to help with them but maybe I can suggest something else. What does ocurr to me though is that with maya it's usually better to capture the names as maya provides them to you e.g. string $blah = `spaceLocator`

At least that way you avoid weird maya things where it can't find the object you specify.

:bandit:
Alan