> if only Python wasn't so rigid. what.
You realize you'd have a little more luck with Python if you weren't wielding it like a cudgel in the examples you've posted here, right? Because it looks like you're treating the language as everything it isn't and nothing it is this whole time. No wonder you're having trouble making your code Pythonic. Go with the flow. ~Temia -- When on earth, do as the earthlings do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list