Steve, thank you for givig me those links. I'll go there if I manage to structure an improvement suggestion.
And about the link to the Howto: I suppose many people don't read the manual from a to z but with a particular problem in mind. Hence the link could ble locateded several places, perhaps referencing to an exact and relevant section of the Howto. Rune -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list