In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven W. Orr wrote: > Now I want something that's going to give me a string whose value is the > set of all of the first letters of months. Order is not important.
"".join(set(m[0] for m in calendar.month_abbr[1:])) > And for extra credit, I need the string whose value is the set of all of > the letters of months minus the first letter. "".join(set("".join(m[1:] for m in calendar.month_abbr[1:]))) Those are the ways that are obvious to me anyway, maybe there are better ways. If you actually want a set not a string, remove the outer-most "".join(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list