HI, Thanks to everyone for your comments ( i never knew "with" existed, but to quote Borat "I like", unfortunately I cant apply for the job as i m in the UK and dont have the experience but hey 10 minutes of programming python beats 12 hours of programming in Clipper-derived unreadable drivel (you dont know how much I appreciate Python atm).
I have one question though: Using a module global for this kind of data is usually a bad idea (except eventually for run-once throw-away scripts, and even then...) Why is this a bad idea? Thanks in advance Nathan PS I am very ashamed I wrote: if (len(sys.argv)) is 1 ...................... I would ask that this is never spoken of again, oh well off to work I go -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list