Victor Subervi wrote: > I need to get at the individual elements of the set (that which is > between the single quotes).
It's not quite clear what you mean by "get at the individual elements", so I'll just show you a couple of things you can do to a set, and maybe one of them comes close to what you need: >>> from sets import Set >>> aSet = Set(['Small', 'Extra-small', 'Medium']) Do something for each element: >>> for element in aSet: ... print element ... Small Extra-small Medium Convert the set to list: >>> list(aSet) ['Small', 'Extra-small', 'Medium'] Test membership in the set: >>> 'Small' in aSet True >>> 'Banana' in aSet False HTH, -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list