"W W" <srilyk at gmail.com> wrote >> for x in range(3): > > but the OP was looping from 3 to 1, and that's the easiest way I > knew of. Yes, but they weren't using the counter so it didn't matter which way they looped. I suspect the decrement pattern was just the one they were most familiar with in some other language (like Java? or VB?) Alan G