"Bell, Kevin" wrote: > I ended up slicing my string into a new one, rather than trying to have > a copy of the string to alter in one case, or leave intact in another > case.
given that you cannot modify strings in place in Python, that comment probably doesn't match what your code really did... ("s = f" doesn't copy the string, it just binds a new name to the existing string object. "s = s.replace" doesn't modify that object; it creates a new one, and binds the same name to that one in- stead) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list