I wanted to do: query = "query text" % tuple(rec[1:-1].append(extra))
but the append() method returns none, so I did this: fields = rec[1:-1] fields.append(extra) query = "query text" % tuple(fields) -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list