Yeah, I know, but never having even looked at python, I'm afraid that I'd be starting right from scratch once again.Were you there in the old days when string$ variable names had a $ on the end? Move the $ to the front of your variable names and you're well on your way. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1