Yikes, I'll have to come back to the OO way in a month or two ;)
This works for now. I just added their names as values: def printdict(dictionaries=[apps, dirs, sites]): for dictionary in dictionaries: print dictionary["name"] keys = dictionary.keys() keys.sort() for key in keys: if key != "name": print key, ":",dictionary[key] print '\n', Thank you both for your help. rpd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list