> how to use strip just once to get rid of both kinds of quotes, single and > double. It seems necessary to do it something like this:
JUst escape the quote character: s.strip('\'"') HTH, Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor