> p.s. This seems to me like it ought to be built into the base language > - multidimensional object arrays.
The only languages I know that truly support anything like what you want are programmes like Mathematica and arguably MS Excel Basic... There is a pseudo mathematica somewhere in Python but otherwise its roll your own time ... I think... Which usually means its time for somebody to find a ready wrapped solution :-) Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor