Tuomas wrote: > lst = map(lambda x: x.strip(), lst)
list comprehensions are more efficient than map/lambda combinations; the above is better written as: lst = [x.strip() for x in lst] in general, map() works best when the callable is an existing function (especially if it's a built-in). not sure if pylist is smart enough to tell the difference, though. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list