On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:54:55 -0700, TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > To do a "*string" wildcard filter use the endswith() function instead > of startswith() and to do a *string* type wildcard filter use > the find() function > -1. Maybe better the ``in`` operator for the '*string*' type. `str.find()` will go away in the future. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch