James Stroud wrote: > Thank you for your help. I will import the __builtin__ module as you > have suggested--it is what I need. > > But....what the heck? You mean if I drop an s I get predictable behavior > and if I don't, I get unpredictable behavior?
You don't get unpredictable behavior, you just get different behavior you didn't expect, which is not the same thing. Python is a programming language, like any other; randomly dropping letters in names is going to result in bad behavior, so be more careful about it. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis To lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away. -- Confucius, ca. 6th C. BC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
