jeff wrote: > ex: > > a = "text str" > if a == "text str": print a > > why doesn't that work? i couldn't find much help about variable types in > the manual, does it need a property like a.text? It works - at least on my computer. That is: it prints "text str" to the console. What did you expect it to do? -- Stach Jabber: stach at jabber atman pl