thanks Aaron, I'll pick what's behind door no. 1 ! That is, I liked your first solution. Having said that, I would only have to place either solution once in my code, then I could call it again and again. So either one would be just as 'light' in actual usage.
Taking this idea a little further, I'd like to build a 'variable inspector' for my GUI app, so that I don't have to resort to debug statements. Instead, I could pop open a window that lists every variable that has an expected None, string, int or float value, and select any one in order to see its value at that time. I believe your method would be useful in that situation as well, no? cheers, -- Stewart Midwinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: midtoad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
