GMane Python wrote: > string repetition can not repeat a value negative times: > 'hello' * -3 is invalid.
Well, it's not invalid: py> 'a' * -1 '' py> 'a' * -42 '' but you could definitely say that S * N1 == S * N2 does not imply that N1 == N2 STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list