Well, it would have been French if I had spelled it right - since you force me overcome my laziness, I see I should have spelled it lieu ...
Thank you. You reminded me of the (weak) workaround of using arrays and confirmed my suspicion that I although I can read the variable, I won't be able to write to it. I still don't understand why not, though... As for python 3 ... "nonlocal"? I see I'm not alone in picking obnoxious names ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list