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On 01/04/2015 05:27, Andrew Farrell wrote:
> You should follow Rustom's advice before just diving into the blog post
> I linked to. Otherwise you risk blindly following things and losing your
> bearings when you run into bugs.
>

Sound advice, but would you please be kind enough to intersperse your 
answers or bottom post as top posting is heavily frowned upon here.

TIA.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence