g.franzkowiak wrote: > tmpList = list(dataObject)[:4]) > obj = tmpList[0]+tmpList[1]+tmpList[2]+tmpList[3].
Have you tried just obj = dataObject[:4] without the intermediate list? If that failed, can you tell us the type of the dataObject? E. g. >>> print type(dataObject) <class '__main__.NeitherListNorString'> Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
