bvdpoel at uniserve.com wrote: > > I guess I want something like: > > b,c=a.rsplit(1) It would be nice if you could do this with b, c = a.split(-1) PEP, anyone? -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand To get my email address, please visit my web page: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg