Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > Jason wrote: >> Rather than reply to those individuals, just a big "thanks" to those >> that have helped. >> >> It's definitely making sense, the fact that I need to show the >> two-element tuple to show correctly was one of those head-slapping moments. >> >> And Dennis Lee Bieber hit the nail on the head when he mentioned that >> I'd declared the initial scores as strings, yet I was comparing them >> against integers. I simply removed the single-quotes from the scores >> and everything slotted into place. >> >> Again, I now have the list working, apart from the list is reversed (as >> per Dennis Lee Bieber mentioned). I'm afraid I don't understand what >> you mean about the DIFF report but I'll investigate further and learn a >> bit more. > > Please bear in mind: If you just remove the quotes from '00050', you will get > a value of 40. This is because integer literals with leading zeroes are inter- > preted as octal. > > Reinhold
Doh! Just found that out! lol. OK I'm going to read a bit more in the manual now; I'm determined to crack this nut by the morning. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list