On 2010-02-24 18:59, Steve Holden wrote: >> Aw shucks when will I learn to do the stuff in 3 lines well instead of >> 20, poorly. :-/ >> > When you've got as much experience as Paul? And how much experience does Paul have? (this is mostly not a facile question) For my part, my more serious effort (on and off) with programming in Python is under a year. Regards, mk