Shane Hathaway wrote: > Ok. The word "interpolation" is a little confusing here--maybe we > should call it string substitution. :-) It's standard terminology AFAIK, viz: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0215.html Did you have a particular reason to restrict '?' to just after a slash? I figured it could be given syntax identical to '$', just a slightly different meaning. Cheers, Evan @ 4-am