Searching for most pythonic/least stupid way to do something simple

[david jensen]

>If Gerard's code works, I would consider it far superior to your code
>here.  Pythonic does not necessarily mean short and ugly

yes, I agree... and in my script i'm using something very like
Gerard's (thanks again, Gerard). I just posted the corrected version
of nn's because the original solved only half the problem.

thanks, all

dmj