Found that this would be handy today: alist = [1, 2, 3] alist.extend(['a', 'b', 'c'], 1) alist == [1, 'a', 'b', 'c', 2, 3] # True James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute of Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com