> 2) delObject vs ? I've never considered that "delete" has a different meaning than "remove", and I've used and understood them pretty much interchangeably. But I'm not a native speaker, and I've learned a lot of English through computer documentation. :-) Is it the case that "delete" sounds more like "destroy"? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)