basic python questions

[John Machin]

Paddy wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>
>
> > [Aside] How are you going to explain all this to your instructor, who
> > may be reading all this right now?
> >
>
> The instructor should be proud!
> He has managed to do his very first post to a this newsgroup, about a
> homework question, and do it in the right way. that is no mean feat.
>
> - Paddy.

In fact, he may well by now know more than his instructor, and be
explaining the finer points of Python :-)