In <1173084222.565386.250510 at h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, bg_ie wrote: > Therefore, how do I build the tuple of Falses to reflect the length of > my t tuple? In [1]: dict.fromkeys(('one', 'two', 'three'), False) Out[1]: {'three': False, 'two': False, 'one': False} Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch