Hello, thank you all for your suggestions/comments.
While I do believe in a minimalist approach (part of the reason I find Python so appealing), using print statements sometimes only goes so far (for me). I probably should look into using iPython in the context of debugging (I already use this shell). For now I ended up giving winpdb a whirl and it did help me find the bug that had been elusive to my print statement approach :-) Thanks again .. and if there are additional postings, I'll be reading them too with great interest. Esmail -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
