> I was aiming to figure out if the standard modules shipped with Python > could do this already before I started using 3rd party libraries. Thanks.
You could also manage it with the ctypes module, if you consider that standard: it is in the python.org and ActivePython distros as of Python 2.5. Cheers, Trent -- Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
