On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > It sounds like you're taking a python course. Your course should have > taught you all you need to carry out this programming task before setting > this exercise. > > Alternatively, if you have so far been a fully attending, attentive and > straight A student on this course, perhaps they are setting exercises for > which they have not previously provided the necessary tuition.
There is a half-and-half possibility, too; sometimes a course will give you a challenge, and *then* introduce you to the techniques necessary for solving it (after letting you have a shot at it on your own). I don't like that style, myself, but it does exist, so it may be worth skimming forward a few sections in the course to see what it teaches next. But frankly, I doubt that's what's going on here. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
