tobiah <toby at tobiah.org> writes: > assuming that the 'lines' have newlines at the end, No need to assume; tell the string what you want. ' '.join(line1.rstrip('\n'), line2) -- \ "Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use | `\ their weapons." -- Voltaire, _Dictionnaire Philosophique_ | _o__) | Ben Finney