Hi, let's assume you want to nicely print the content of a list except for one (or some) individual item. You could do it like this:
t = ["foo", "skip me", 1, 2, 3] print("text: %s\nvalues: %i %i %i" % (t[0], t[2], t[3], t[4])) If there was a conversion type which simply ignores the corresponding list item - let's call it "%v" like "void" - things would be much easier: t = ["foo", "skip me", 1, 2, 3] print("text: %s\nvalues: %v%i %i %i" % t) I guess that this new conversion type wouldn't break any existing code. What do you think? Cheers, Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list