MRAB> FYI: >>> float(s) 105646.365517
MRAB> which saves a few keystrokes. :-) Thanks. Didn't used to be that way I don't think. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ "XML sucks, dictionaries rock" - Dave Beazley -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list