On May 25, 9:46 pm, Uncle Ben <bgr... at nycap.rr.com> wrote: > list = [1,2,3] Somewhat unrelated, but... is it a good idea to name your list "list"? Isn't that the name of Python's built-in list constructor method? Shadowing a built-in has contributed to more than one subtle bug in my code, and I've learned to avoid it.