Alexnb: > How can I test if the list item is empty without getting that exception?
In Python such list cell isn't empty, it's absent. So you can use len(somelist) to see how much long the list is before accessing its items. Often you can iterate on the list with a for, so you don't need to care of the len(). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list