> Hooray, right?! However, my real problem is dealing with another > dimension of data. So suppose I can access the following data: > > "5100", "foo" > "5100", "-" > "5100", "-" > "5100", "-" > "5200", "foo" > "5200", - Hint: Dictionaries can be keyed by tuples too. >( 5100, -) : 3 Does that help? Alan G.