Thanks for your help on this, gents. Got it working now. shawn On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org> wrote: > nibbles from a byte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20110804/8ef491c7/attachment-0001.html>