Thanks again to everyone who tried to help. Michael, I especially appreciate your encouragement and chiming in to point out that telling newbies to learn everything there is before posting question was not helpful in getting more people using Python.
Have the Pi wired up directly to the buttons, read up on the GPIO library and I just posted for help regarding the error messages I am getting from my Python buttons script. Thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list