On Oct 15, 3:03 pm, "Matt McCredie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, the best way to get the posted > code to work [...] is to cast the input parameter to a list first.
<snip> > >>> s = "I am a string" > >>> x = list(s) > >>> x > > ['I', ' ', 'a', 'm', ' ', 'a', ' ', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'] >>> "".join(x) > > 'I am a string' Pardon my nit-picking, but the line "x = list(s)" is not casting anything. It is constructing a new list from the iterable s. Even if s is a list, you get back a new list with the same elements: Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 >>> lst = list("ABCDEF") >>> id(lst) 12249928 >>> id(list(lst)) 12250088 (This was a surprise to me too - I thought list(listVar) just returned back the original listVar.) -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list