"Chris Rebert" <c...@ria.com> wrote: > lb = list("banana")
Aaargh! I should have known - you use a string method to get a list of words, but you have to go to the list to get a list of characters from a string. There is no string method to do it, which is what I am complaining about. Is there a reason for this, or is the lack of symmetry just an historical artefact? The link that jon vs python supplied is interesting. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list