Brian I am so thankful for your reply and for Alex's and everyone else's on this thread. (See my reply to Alex.) This email may seem minor but it was bugging me for months. You just pointed out what I should have remembered on my own...
*<>'s wouldn't have been a perfect choice because they would have had their own unique gotchas involving accidentally interpreting them as binary shift operators* I really appreciate it. Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
