On Feb 10, 12:01 pm, rshepard-at-appl-ecosys.com wrote: > On 2007-02-10, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Assuming item is "(u'ground water',)" > > > import re > > item = re.compile(r"\(u'([^']*)',\)").search(item).group(1) > > James, > > I solved the problem when some experimentation reminded me that 'item' is > a list index
AArrgghh it's not a list index, it's a ferschlugginer tuple containing 1 element. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list