I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?):
py> b = '\xb6' py> b[0] '\xb6' py> b[0][0] '\xb6' py> b[0][0][0] '\xb6' py> b[0][0][0][0] '\xb6' py> b[0][0][0][0][0] '\xb6' James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list