Terry> Numarray has a record array type. If there is not one publicly Terry> available, perhaps you could write a CSV file to record-array Terry> slurper and contribute it to the Recipes site or maybe even the Terry> CSV module.
-1 on putting such a beast into the CSV module, especially if, as it seems, it would rely on something outside the core. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list