There's another option that I haven't seen yet as well, where you use the translation method for strings.
<code> # Build a list where each entry is a character whose value is 3 higher than its index. charList = [ chr((x+3) % 256) for x in range(256) ] transform = ''.join(charList) # Change the list to a string, which the tranlate method requires print "Hello there!".translate(transform) </code> The translate method can be very useful, although it can only translate on a character-by-character basis. --Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
