[Tutor] Poor style to use list as "array"?

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Angus Rodgers wrote:
[..]
> 
> This feels like a bit of a cheat, as if I am trying to program in
> Python as if it were some other more familiar language.  Should I
> have coded this differently?

I can't offer anything concrete but here are some things that occur to 
me at a glance.

0. You can try to use the collections module in 2.6 (especially the 
namedtuple object which gives you access to things through attributes as 
well as through order.
1. You have 3 lists (denom, plural and count) which you will iterate 
through in lockstep as far as I can tell. It's an option to use a list 
of 3-tuples or a list of dictionaries with three keys (denomination, 
plural and count).

Thanks.

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