Struggling with this concept please help

[Diez B. Roggisch]

George wrote:
> Not allowed to use Beautiful Soup because of the very important built
> ins that is provides that makes it very simple to complete this
> problem. Not my choice . This is a review question for our final in two
> months and I just want to get things going so I can try to understand
> things better. Please help.

Post your code. Nobody is giving you the solution to your problem - it's 
your task, after all! But we'd happily comment on your trials.

Diez