Brian Blazer enlightened us with: > I'm still not sure why it was grabbing the prompt string though.
Me neither. Try it in a standalone script instead of an interactive session. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list