I'm sorry if this mail (also) sidetracks the primary theme of this thread. But, it was a moment of "shock and awe" seeing the use of list for checking among multiple options ... which is usually done using a name=opt1 or name=op2 etc.,
I started as a C programmer and hence, that style of thinking has stuck with me for this particular case( and now, i feel like banging my head on the wall for times i have not used the "list like multiple option" when possible(bang, bang)). It just reminds me that the most important thing about learning a language is also to learn its style and "paradigm" and not just its syntax and semantics. Or one might end up wrenching in "C-like-thinking" into a python program where it might not look necessarily pretty. Also, I strongly feel that one can get acquainted to the style and "paradigm" of a language only by reading the works of better coders. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
