bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > Here a small benchmark: > > def ip2inet01(a): # can't be used with 6 > li = a.split('.') <snip>
Wow, thanks everybody for all the suggestions, v.interesting esp as I didn't even ask for any suggestions! This is a fantastically didactic newsgroup: you start off just musing about functional programming, you end up learning python has a rich set of augmented assignment operators, brilliant :-) Roger Heathcote. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list