"Ricardo Aráoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >It still won't work. Strings are immutable, you can't use del > > to delete a character. Try it. > > It comes straight from Idle (still warm ;-) ). > Notice s = list(s)
Shame and embarrassment! I read that code through both times and never noticed the list conversion either time! I did wonder about the join() but just dismissed it as irrelevant. Grovelling apologies. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor