Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Usually one or two have trouble grasping that "int" would be perfectly > > adequate in this situation. > > The ability to pass around functions at run-time was probably the > hardest thing to get my head around when I started with Python,
And I suspect that this particular case is further complicated by the fact that int is not a function ... it's a type! I can imagine it might make a newbie's brain melt. Still, most of them survive and thoroughly enjoy the course :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list