let me try. 1) ''.join(lots_of_pieces)
2) This doesn't even work, if something is removed, the list is too short. So: [x for x in somelist if not isbad(x)] well, list comprehension is Python 2.4 and 2.3 is the standard in many OSes, so it is possibly not the most portable solution I had to look up the syntax, because i never use it in my code, yet. 3+4) I never used property - had to look it up. So i learned something :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list