Homework help

[Dave Hansen]

On Apr 1, 11:29 am, bobby.con... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 1, 12:17 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>
> > bobby.con... at gmail.com writes:
> > > I don't necessarily want the answers, but need help on how to approach
> > > it/the steps i need to solve the problems
>
> > What parts are you having difficulty with?  Are there some course
> > materials and have you read them yet?
>
> I just don't know how to start the problems off

Well, for the first problem, the first line is

   def howMany(item,lst):

If you can't figure out where to go from there, start here:
http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

Regards,

   -=Dave