a hobbyist's dilemma

[John Salerno]

Enigma Curry wrote:
> I would second the vote for pythonchallenge. It's what taught me
> Python.
> 
> The amazing thing about the python challenge is by the time your done
> with it, you've gotten through a very large and diverse sampling of the
> python docs. It really gave me a good understanding of all the things
> that Python can do.  You'll still want to read more traditional
> tutorials and thoery as well, but that can wait, just play around with
> it for a while.
> 

Yup, stuck on the second exercise. I know mostly what to do, but there's 
one thing hanging me up, so time to search through the docs. :)