Thanks for the reply, the book I'm actually using is Python Programming for the absolute beginner. The book has been good to pick up basic things but it doesn't cover time or dates as far as I can tell. As for previous programming experience, I have had some lite introductions to C & C++ about 6 years ago but I never went past the introductions.So far "my first program" has been written from snippets from many different websites.
Also i'm using ActiveState Active Python 2.4 on a Windows XP machine. I will try to work through Tim's response. I tried using it yesterday but I was really confused on what I was doing. Colin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
