On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:58:27 GMT, rumours say that Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> might have written: >charmap = {} >for c in chr: charmap[c] = c+'\\' I believe you meant charmap[c] = '\\' + c ... -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best, Ils sont fous ces Redmontains! --Harddix