Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > These are snatched straight from perl. In perl they are spelt > slightly differently
Yup, they are; perl had _some_ good ideas; no doubt. ;) > In perl (and maybe in ruby I don't know) the { } can be replaced with > any two identical chars, or the matching pair if bracketty, so q/blah/ > or q(blah). Yes; same thing in ruby. Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list