On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:58:44PM +0200, Florent Guillaume wrote: > And all empty tuples are equal. Not just equal, but all empty tuples are *identical*, so () is () == True. I had no idea this was so :-\ > In python 2.3, the idiom most commonly found is to use marker = object(). Thanks for that. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com