On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jerry Lake wrote: > thank you all for the quick help. > > additionally I'm having issues > converting the raw input to float > what I have is as follows > > [snip] > > float(x1) > float(x2) > float(y1) > float(y2) Whoops. float() returns the value as a float, so you have to say "x1=float(x1)", etc. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>