"mp312" <Mark.Puchalski at honigman.com> wrote: > Taking a user id that is in the format 'userid at MACAddress', read the > userid portion (varying length) and concatenate with @honigman.com. here's one way to do it: userid.split("@")[0] + "@honigman.com" for more on string/text handling in Python, see: http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ </F>