anthonyberet wrote: > I know this touches on immutability etc, but I can't find string methods > to return the first 3 characters, and then the last 2 characters, which > I could concatenate with newchar to make a new string. As tiissa said, you want slicing: py> s = "foobar" py> s[:3] 'foo' py> s[:3] + "B" + s[4:] 'fooBar' py> -- Brian Beck Adventurer of the First Order