Thanks for the help guys but I'm a newbie at this and from what I understand from the code, it looks like you guys are using a two dimensional array. I am not using a two dimensional array. Basically, it looks like this:
[ [' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '], [' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '], [' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '], [' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '], [' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '], [' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '], [' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '], [' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '] ] above: a list of lists NOT a two-dimensional array -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list