Mostly I posted to try to find out more about the arguments being passed to __init__, and why they'd be 13 one second and 1 the next.
I also was hoping to get a little more background on what is happening under the hood of the csv function I've plagiarised. I haev read the online python doco on it, but I am not really entirely sure in my own head how it is breaking down that csv entry. I am actually quite familiar with handling strings and lists in python, though less so with dictionaries. I did like your trick with telling splut to stop after 9 times. I hadn't seen that before. Thanks for the response. :-) Googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
