[Dave S] > I need strings of the form 01, 02, 03 ... ,10,11,12 ... for > archiving files. > > Is there an neat way to format a '1' into a '01' ? >>> for x in '1', '3', '30': ... print '%02d' % int(x) ... 01 03 30 Peace, Kalle -- Kalle Svensson, http://www.juckapan.org/~kalle/ Student, root and saint in the Church of Emacs.