what happens when you store a number in an integer, which is larger than the maximum numbr able to be stored in an integer?? also, how does one sue long ints?? does python even have long ints?? (I've never seen them, and i can't see them in the python tutorial....) -- This message was brought to you by one bored guy, with nothing better to do, And the letter Q. Thomi Richards, thomi@imail.net.nz