"Rob Richardson" <rob.richard...@rad-con.com> writes: > My thanks both to the original poster and to JM for an excellent answer. > I saw this syntax for the first time recently, and I've been curious > about it too.
Would it be correct of me to assume that you have not worked through the entire Python tutorial <URL:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/> to get a thorough grounding in Python basics like this? -- \ “I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. | `\ There's a knob called ‘brightness’ but it doesn't work.” | _o__) —Eugene P. Gallagher | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
