I have an idea. Take the threads where students ask the list to do their homework for them (but don't have the cojones to admit that's what they are doing), and merge them with the obfuscated Python idea. A group of people could come up with the solution off-list, then answer the poster's original question (no fair asking them to revise their poorly specified requirements) with a very obfuscated answer on-list. I think it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when they explain how their programs work to their professors, especially if they have little easter eggs embedded in them.
:-) Perhaps we could start with the 10 random even numbers? I'll start: #!/usr/bin/env python import random output = [] while len(output) < 10: output.append(random.randrange(0, 1000, 2)) print 1, output output = [random.randrange(0, 500) * 2 for _ in range(10)] print 2, output output = [] while len(output) < 10: r = int(round(random.random() * 500)) if r % 2: r *= 2 output.append(r) print 3, output getting-tired-of-homework-questions-in-my-old-age-ly, y'rs, Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list