Thanks for the rapid replys, I cracked the problem 15 seconds after posting here, doh!
Anyway to the orginally replier - I wish it was homework ;-), that would mean I wouldnt be trying to find myself a job as a recent graduate... I decided to crawl something similar to the yellow pages (do you have them in the US?) for my select area and then find all pages corresponding to my ideal field of work, and grab their details into a txt file. Trouble is I keep thinking of cool new bits to add, python truely is a beautifal language. Ideally would like to somehow write all the information into a word mail merge - but I think that requires more research! Cheers! David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list