"Ron Provost" <ron.longo at cox.net> wrote in message news:00d101c83443$db5a71d0$6501a8c0 at aristotle... | VARS = [ 0 for x in xrange( 0, 1000 ) ] # Create an array to hold the This is the same as [0]*1000 which is faster to write, read, (and run).