> There just isn't enough > neat-looking punctuation in the ASCII character set.
Alex I can't thank you enough for your reply and for everyones' great info on this thread. The end of your email gave a rock solid reason why it is impossible to improve upon ()'s for tuples.... *There simply isn't enough good candidates in ASCII.* Moving to Unicode has pros and cons but your defense of parens assuming ASCII is perfect. Thanks again. Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list