Is there any reason to keep two seperate modules with simple-formatting functions? I think pprint is somewhat more sophisticated, but in the worst case, we can just dump them both in the same file (the only thing would be that pprint would export "repr", in addition to "saferepr" (among others). (Just bumped into this in my reorg suggestion) -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com