Jumping around when assigning elements

[Peter Otten]

Cameron Laird wrote:

> We've probably convinced Mr. Sims that Python (and
> object-oriented programming) is really, really hard,
> particularly compared to Perl:  we have to write
> hairy Class definitions just to do the simplest
> things.

Posting a piece of ugly code to meet a specification that is incomplete or
even wrong and at the same time showing Python in bad light compared to
Perl... I have to be more careful with my posts.

Peter