> As a newbie Pythoner, I understand [] -1] but would some tell me how > '::' does its magic? > > Uncle Ben
The -1 is the "stride" or "step" argument. It's described at http://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5/whatsnew/section-slices.html Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
