"Andrew Dalke" <dalke at dalkescientific.com> wrote in message news:9rt3co$rid$1 at slb2.atl.mindspring.net... > Greg Ewing: > > input = ''.join(range(256)) > > input = "".join(map(chr, range(256))) > input = "".join([chr(x) for x in range(256)]) -- http://www.holdenweb.com/