On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:10:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) wrote: [...] >----< ernesto.py >--------------------------------------------------------- [...] Just noticed: > substrings = line.split() > if substrings and isinstance(substrings, list) and substrings[0] == > 'Name:': ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--not needed
str.split always returns a list, even if it's length 1, so that was harmless but should be if substrings and substrings[0] == 'Name:': (the first term is needed because ''.split() => [], to avoid [][0]) Sorry. Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list