On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:18:12 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > The function call syntax doesn't allow a space between the function > name and the opening parenthesis.
Are you sure? I thought it was allowed but not recommended because it is hard to read. >>> len ([1, 2, 3]) 3 Seems to work for me. And if you think that's bad, check out this: >>> '+' . join ( [ 'a' , 'b' ] ) 'a+b' How to write legal but unreadable code in Python. -- Steven D'Aprano -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list