> As far as I know there is no built-in way to extract the nth
> element out of a list, but it is very simple to write a function
> to do this for you:
>
def extract (oldlist, spacing):
newlist = []
for i in range(0,len(oldlist),spacing):
newlist.append(oldlist[i])
return newlist
Should do it?
Alan g.
Author of the Learn to Program website
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/