Corrado Santoro wrote: > I would refer to the python slicing capability, i.e.: > > a="Hello, World" > a[5:-3] --> ", Wo" Given what is already in the lists module, slice("Hello, World", 5, -3) -> ... must be a one- or two-liner. Why bother with the syntactic sugar? Regards, Dominic Williams http://www.dominicwilliams.net ----