Wow... Thanks for all the tips guys...
I will study the above examples.
...down to 8 lines of exquisitely readable code... Wow... Python
rocks...
(still aspiring to greatness myself,)
cheers,
-John
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x=["ohndes","j","wu","x[1][0]+x[0][:3]+chr(((len(x))*16))+x[2]+x[0][2:]+`round(1)`[1]+x[3][17]+x[0][0]+chr(ord(x[0][2])-1)"]
print eval(x[3])
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