>>>>> Ewald <ehoute at zeelandnet_dot_nl> (E) writes: E> Or less ugly: E> a = '[1,2,3,4]' E> map(int,filter(lambda x:x.isdigit(),a)) Now try this with a = '[11,12,13,1234]' -- Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP] Private email: P.van.Oostrum at hccnet.nl