Guy Doune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok, didn't show the whole problem... > >I will read the doc anyway, but why "questions.html" keep it "t"?? > > >>> test=['03.html', '06.html', 'questions.html', '04.html', >'toc.html', '01.html', '05.html', '07.html', '02.html', '08.html'] > >>> test[4] >'toc.html' > >>> test[4].strip('.html') >'oc' > >>> test[2].strip('.html') >'questions'
Because it removes any periods, h's, t's, m's, or l's at the beginning or ending of the string. That "t" is in the middle. In this case, the stripping stopped at the "q" and the "s". -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list