>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com> writes: Ping> So "34"+0 converts to a number and 34."" converts to a string Ping> (i've seen both idioms fairly often). SM> Halleluhah! Never thought I'd get Perl programming help here! Talk about a low signal-to-noise ratio! You get insights into a lot more than Python on python-dev. Jeremy