Newbie ?:A more concise way?

[Brian]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<3C82FD24.122E16B3 at engcorp.com>...
> Peter Hansen wrote:
[..snip..]
> > (I'd suggest if you're just trying to save typing five
> > keystrokes that you find more critical things to work on first.)

Actually, I did.  I left the less critical item for someone on the NG
to answer for me.  ;-)

> Oops, sorry.  That sounds a little callous.  I really just meant
> to give a response similar to my "programmers always try to optimize
> when they don't really need to" diatribe.  

I originally meant to ask a question more along the lines of "what is
the most pythonic way of doing this."  Then I decided all that extra
typing in my message was suboptimal.  Was that something that didn't
really need optimization?  <cough>

Thanks for the welcome.  :)