Steve Holden wrote: > I'd say it's much more likely that line is a list of lines, since it > seems improbable that absence of a character should cause a value of > "nothing" to be required.
You may be right. I always use plural nouns for collections. To me 'line' would suggest there was just one of them, so I assumed it was string. Will McGugan -- http://www.willmcgugan.com "".join({'*':'@','^':'.'}.get(c,0) or chr(97+(ord(c)-84)%26) for c in "jvyy*jvyyzpthtna^pbz") -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list