I also notice that there is the is the 'datetime' module, which is new to version 2.3, which i now have access to. My feeling is that this will do much of what i want, but i can't get my head round the standard library reference stuff
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-datetime.html I don't have any texts with me either and it probably is too new to be in the Python Standard Library book by Fredrik Lundh or the Python Essential Reference by David Beazley -kevin- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
