Behrang Dadsetan <ben at dadsetan.com> wrote in message news:<3F0C8AC3.5010304 at dadsetan.com>... > > def isAcceptableChar(character): > return charachter in "@&" > > str = filter(isAcceptableChar, str) > > is going to finally be what I am going to use. Might 'return character not in "@&"' work better?