I've seen a couple plus responses to my proposed ConfigParser enhancements, no minuses, and the thread has petered out. If nobody hands me a -1, I'm going to merge them in in a day or so. Speak now... -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> "The state calls its own violence `law', but that of the individual `crime'" -- Max Stirner