Many thanks to everyone who got in touch about my problems with python. Special Thanks go to mrben, who took time out to talk me through all 3 problems I was having, and 1 extra one that I thought of while he was helping me! I now have a fully working Python Program. So fully working in fact that I have extended it’s capabilites even further. It now sits on our Network Drive at work in an Installer that will create all the relevant shortcuts that people seem to like, and I know it’s being used by at least 2 departments outside my own 
I still intend to learn Python properly (I have added Python For Dummies to my Christmas list!), and am planning in the next version to take away the dependency on MS Access by implementing a back-end updater & keep the data in a text file. I’m hoping that this will speed up the application, even though people are already impressed by how well it runs!
Oh, and I’ve switched from SPE to Eclipse with PyDev. This way I can use the same IDE at home as I do at work, so I can concentrate on learning the language rather than how to use the IDE. It also has a plugin for NSIS (the installer I used for my DepotSearcher) and for Subversion, which I can see coming in useful as I learn more
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Glad to be of service
I’d be interested as to how you get on with Eclipse; I found it painfully slow when I used it, and went back to Vim (and, at times, pida, which incorporates vim)
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