Thanks for the advice, The reason for the choice of my particular test project is that it is in the direction that I want to go in so choosing some other won't do. I've looked briefly at PyGame but this means I have to learn a lot besides what I want to do.
I thought that maybe my project could be accomplishied using Tkinter (or possibly wxPython) and PIL. Am I on the wrong track, or should I invest my time into PyGame even if I don't plan to make games? Bob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list