On 28/04/2006 4:46 PM, Paddy wrote: > Something like (untested): > > out = [] > for ch in instring: > if ch==backspace: > if out: > out = out[:-1] > else: > out.append(ch) > outstring = ''.join(out)
Instead of: if out: out = out[:-1] consider: del out[-1:] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list