On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:06:17 -0800, '@'.join([..join(['fred','dixon']),..join(['gmail','com'])]) wrote:
I'd also suggest validInput = "ABCDEFGHIJKL" # and there are more clever ways to do this, # but this will do myInput = raw_input(" ".join(validInput) + "?") if len(myInput) != 1: # do whatever pass if myInput not in validInput: raise ValueError("Input not in legal input: " + validInput) Obviously not a drop-in replacement for your code, but ought to clean it up a little. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list