Ofcourse! Thankyou so much. All is well, using the Iterparse takes a mere 3mins to find the last product in the xml and this is probably due to my checking 10000 products for a specific.
<looks at shoes>I feel rather honoured to have 'the' effbot reply to my humble post....</looks at shoes> Thanks again Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
