Yes, everyone, it is the moment you have all dreaded. A new version of pure python __builtin__s. This version contains nudity, sexual references, chr implemented using '%c'%i, an optimized ord, multiarg map and zip, and the new functions unichr, oct, hex, staticmethod, *attr (for * in (get,has,set)), isinstance, issubclass, and slice. I did not include classmethod as this seems to warrent further discussion. Stuff I think can be easily done in python that haven't been yet: dir, raw_input, reload, round, and xrange. thinks-python-can-be-faster-than-c-ly yours, -Scott -- char m[9999],*n[99],*r=m,*p=m+5000,**s=n,d,c;main(){for(read(0,r,4000);c=*r; r++)c-']'||(d>1||(r=*p?*s:(--s,r)),!d||d--),c-'['||d++||(*++s=r),d||(*p+=c== '+',*p-=c=='-',p+=c=='>',p-=c=='<',c-'.'||write(1,p,1),c-','||read(2,p,1));}