Terrance N. Phillip wrote: > Thank-you very much for all the excellent replies. I'm thinking of using > this to determine if a sequence is a "run" (as in a card game). If I've > got a sorted hand [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], then I know I've got a 5-card run > because [4, 5, 6, 7] - [3, 4, 5, 6] == [1, 1, 1, 1]. I want to avoid > something like > if h[0] == h[1]-1 and h[1] == h[2]-1 ...
In that case: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/415504 -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list