I thought if I could do this: >>> a = b = '' >>> a = 'a' >>> a 'a' >>> b ''
then this would behave similarly: >>> la = lb = [] >>> la.append('a') >>> la ['a'] >>> lb ['a'] I thought wrong! But don't know why. Inquiring minds want to know..... thanx, jh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list