I did somethign that really seems far brighter... approaching it from a slightly different angle I just search through each line for the right field title, and then take that field's value from teh last line of output.
Doesn't matter what OS, doesn't matter what format now. It can cope with it all. :-) Thanks for the advice! I learned a bunch. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list