Michael Spencer wrote: > > Still, this is fascinating.... going to have to spend some time > > experimenting with groupby as soon as I get a chance.... > > > Experimenting is good. So is the the documentation: > http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
Reading documentation is a good idea, but I think your example would be more clear for Jordan if you used function attributes: def record(item): if len(item) > 20: record.seq +=1 return record.seq record.seq = 0 Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list