I'm going to disappear for a week; back on the 28th. I'll be on a cruise ship teaching Python and Zope. (Can you say boondoggle? It's spelled www.geekcruises.com. :-) They've threatened to hook us up with internet access to maybe I won't be offline completely, but I expect to be checking for email rarely. The rest of the PL crew is at your service, of course! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)