In article <4da83f8f$0$29986$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> for key in dct: > if key.startswith("Keyword"): > maxkey = max(maxkey, int(key[7:])) I would make that a little easier to read, and less prone to "Did I count correctly?" bugs with something like: prefix = "Keyword" n = len(prefix) for key in dct: name, value = key[:n], key[n:] if name == prefix: maxkey = max(maxkey, int(value)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list