Sjoerd Mullender writes: > I don't think the first example will actually work: there is a "c" > missing in the to-be-matched string. That's what I get for re-typing the example instead of copying it from the interactive session. (Yes, I did *try* it to be sure!) Fix coming up... -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation