On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Mike Hostetler wrote: > for i in newfiles: > tar = tar+ " " + i This is just tar = string.join(newfiles, " ") Simpler and faster. Oleg. (All opinions are mine and not of my employer) ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd at phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.