HELP Newbie solve this Problem

[Tom Funk]

In an article posted Fri, 24 Mar 2000 03:43:38 GMT,
race9047 at my-deja.com (race9047 at my-deja.com) said:

> The objective is to write a command that will give a list of how many
> times the letters appear in the preamble. 

Is this a homework problem? It *sounds* like a homework problem. <g> In 
most comp.* newsgroups, doing someone else's homework for them is usually 
frowned upon. 

However, I think it would be safe to share this much: 

- check out the re module  
- strings are sequences of characters
- dictionaries are very cool for grouping things
  and their keys can be sorted.

Have fun! ;-)

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-=< tom >=-
Thomas D. Funk                           |        "Software is the lever
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