"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Aside to the list: > Did anyone else know that you can assign to a list element > as the target of a for statement?
Nope, and in fact I was just trying it out at the >>> prompt when your message came in! On a general point for the OP, I doubt if you need the csv module for this. You could generate the required data list using a simple string split() and a single list comprehension: fis = [line.split() for line in infile] Which might simplify things slightly. Also it might help processing to sort the list based on the range value. But it depends on what other extractions/processing need to be done. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor