noydb: > I have not worked with the %. > Can you provide a snippet of your idea in code form?
Then it's a very good moment to learn using it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operator >>> 10 % 3 1 >>> 10 % 20 10 >>> -10 % 3 2 >>> -10 % -3 -1 >Something like that....< Implement your first version, run it, and show us its output. Then I/ we can try to give you suggestions to improve your code. >existing code???< Sometimes you have to write code... that's life. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list