For what it's worth, googling for "python asterisk" gives this as the very first result:
http://www.technovelty.org/code/python/asterisk.html which tells you exactly what you're probably wanting to know if you ask that. To check that this phenomemon isn't restricted to asterisks in particular, I also tried "python plus equals" and got http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2347265/what-does-plus-equals-do-in-python which is also a pretty good result. So the rule of thumb seems to be: if you're trying to google for punctuation, try spelling it out. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
