Why Microsoft and Windows ? B/c it was actually in the data I was trying to parse (though not something I was needing to parse), I obscured everything except my test search terms *shrugs*
I saw something on this group about 'to many "or's"' so I figured it was an option. Thanks for the .splitlines() pointer, it fixed my woe's I was experiencing as stated earlier. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list