On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:06 PM, <andydtay...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I can answer my own question on reflection.... the first one is > actually a string I think? I was confused by the square brackets around the > placeholder %s.
That's correct. Your first line is putting square brackets around a comma-joined list of strings; the second gives the representation of a list. They happen to be superficially similar. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list