[Tim Peters, whines about level 7] [Dan Christensen, gives a huge hint]
The first time I looked at it, I thought "hmm, I should use PIL for this". I kept thinking that too <wink> -- but for some reason wanted to see if there was a clear way to do it without something that "fancy". I eventually gave up and did the obvious thing (and of course that worked). simple's-good-but-braindead-simple-ain't-always-enough-ly y'rs - tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list