Thanks!! I got all of this. The problem that I was trying to figure out was this.
Basically there are multiple combinatories here - I was hoping someone could point me to a general approach. Writing the actual funtion is not necessary - as you pointed out I can certainly do that. Here is my problem - I did exactly as you and said OK I can if Foundry==None and Process==None: elif Foundy==None and Process!=None: elif Foundy!=None and Process==None: elif Foundy!=None and Process!=None: But this seems very ugly... And if I want to do this for the three areas, it seems very repetitive. I was looking for a better way to break this down which is reusable. Thanks for the help - I guess I should have been more clear. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
