John Machin: >Good luck!
Thank you for your patience and for educating me. (Though I still have a long way to go before enlightenment) I thought Python might have a small weakness in lacking an efficient way to get the number of bytes in a "UTF-8 encoded Python string object" (proper?), but I've been disabused of that notion. It's always a nice feeling when my language of choice withstands my nitpicking. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
