Sorry Ron, my earlier reply was too brief I wasn't thinking straight (so what else is new ;-) my apologies. The main reason for going down the route I am looking at (thread 2) is that intellisense runs OK in my IDE using that aproach.
In my application this will be important as I will be using the IDE (Wing) as a high level user editor in a limited code area. The user will need to see (hence the use of intellisense) which properties are available for him to work with. The second example you gave runs similar to the first, and unfortunately the intellisense does not pick up available properties as you go walk the dots. Not suprisingly really as the class is dynamic in the way it operates. It only see's the index property and the showall function. The code as you wrote it works fine though, and it is already salted away in my meager (but growing) codebank. Many thanks for your reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
