thanks for the guidance on the pantsd RB @enough-analyst-54434 .. will partition that up as suggested. btw, regarding ‘while True’ vs ‘while 1’ - this has always been my basis for the preferring the latter in 2.x: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3815359/while-1-vs-for-whiletrue-why-is-there-a-difference + benchmark: http://pastebin.com/60xPmLiA