"Alex Martelli" <aleax at mac.com> wrote: > Hendrik van Rooyen <mail at microcorp.co.za> wrote: > > > there is a recipe for this sort of thing, but I keep losing links. > > <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965> . > thanks - but its probably no use - I predict I will lose this too... : - ) - Hendrik