Thomas Guettler writes: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:05:21AM +0000, seb bacon wrote: > The Problem is: > last_id=last_id+1 >From Python 2.1 on, you can use: last_id+= 1 Not sure, whether this is thread safe. It might be implemented in a single bytecode instruction. Then it would be... Dieter