Paul> Oops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming
Paul> This helps. But I don't see how it's different from what used to Paul> be called polymorphism. I think of generic programming as polymorphism for statically typed languages. Using the example from the Wikipedia reference, you can't have a generic List class that can hold a list of ints as well as a list of animals without using templates. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list