More random python observations from a perl programmer

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tom> BTW, the @colors assignment is more legibly written using the qw//
    Tom> syntactic sugar:

    Tom>     @colors = qw(red blue green yellow orange purple);

In Python an occasional idiom you see is to use string.split to save typing
so many quotes:

    colors = string.split("red blue green yellow orange purple")

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