On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:49:32 -0500, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: >Seems to me the other solutions I've seen so far are more complex than >needed. I figure you either want an unordered list, in which case you >could use random.shuffle(), or you want a list that's sorted, but starts >somewhere in the middle, at an arbitrary place, goes to the end, and >wraps back to the beginning. So use random.randint() to choose an index >within the list, and concatenate two slices of the list, based on that >index in reverse order.
Yes, this is exactly what I need: Start listing items from a given index (actually, using a character since the list contains names) all the way to the end of the list; If the character wasn't the very first, go back to the first time and display the list until we get to the current character. Python is so feature-rich, I'm sure there's a much simpler way to do this than this crappy code of mine: ============= connected = [] connected.append("0dummy") connected.append("aa") connected.append("bb") connected.append("cc") index = 0 for item in connected: #For testing purposes; #Final code will read/increment character from file if item[index] == "b": break else: index = index + 1 #Print items between current character and end of list tempindex = index while(tempindex < len(connected)): print connected[tempindex] tempindex = tempindex + 1 #if current letter not first character, #display beginning of list up to current character if index != 0: tempindex = 0 while tempindex < index: print connected[tempindex] tempindex = tempindex + 1 ============= Thank you for any help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list