Thanks for posting. I continued to read and realized the instantiation was not a function call soon after I posted. Oh well...
Still unsure about the best way to break up the large #start - #end section. I appreciate your answers and try to digest them more fully. Then maybe I will have a better idea and can post better qualified/ quantified questions. Thanks again, jh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
