[Tim] > Take a look at string.translate. [John (Max) Skaller] > And avoid it, since it isn't compatible with unicode or UTF-8 > encodings :-( I guess Aahz had better avoid len() then too ... something-that-views-the-world-as-a-raw-bytestream-can't-really-be- incompatible-with-anything-ly y'rs - tim