List problem

[Peter Hansen]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
> news:3CA4E7C6.EDE85B98 at engcorp.com...
> > Jon Cosby wrote:
> 
> > > lword = len(firstword)
> 
> You missed that lword *is* the length of firstword, not firstword
> itself, making

D'oh!  I'll fall back on my claim that with inadequate commenting,
it was pretty hard to figure out what was going on. ;-)