> Above all, nobody can tell me that there's any programmer who > doesn't instantly recognize '/' as a directory separator.
There is a programmer who doesn't instantly recognise '/' as a directory separator. I teach programming. The above is true. I think that the statement "any programmer would instantly recognise '/' as division (and associate it therewith)" is much more likely to be true. =Tony.Meyer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list