awesome, I thought that serializeAscii() function looked promising

I'm working on it currently, and I also started browsing through qtdialogs.py to see what the GUI is actually doing on the backend to save the transaction files.

So the key once I get the actual transaction data is to dump it into a file called *.unsigned.tx so the offline wallet will recognize it.  I was wondering about that as well, thanks!  And here I thought the hardest part would be pulling the data in from my DB.. then I remembered about python-mysqldb wrappers

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Thanks a ton for the input, I have almost everything done now, just doing cleanup of my code and adding DB update stuff but I have all the tx file I/O setup.  It was really simple once you told me about the serializeAscii() function.