Andrew Kuchling writes: > MAL's borrowed the time machine again. The above code > could just be written as: I'll blame it on Barry, since he wrote the module. ;-) This should probably get added to the release22-maint branch as well, since the module was included in the Python 2.2 distributions. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation