rurpy at yahoo.com wrote: > <rurpy at yahoo.com> wrote: > > pissed-offedly-yr's, rurpy > > <FLAME OFF> Well, i'm sorry your pissed off. I will say i believe that map(None,*sequences) mentioned above is a pretty commonly seen thing, as is padding shorter sequence for zip/izip. Also have you looked at difflib? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-difflib.html