Hi Grant, thanks for the code snippets - made total sense. On the evidence of the last couple of hours, Python is still feeling very alien, but I'm starting to get my head around it.
I'm just finding it a bit weird that some of the built in functions are static, rather than methods of objects (such as len() being used to find the length of a list). Anyway - cheers again! Jonathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
