I've written a program to illustrate a few... syntactic issues with Python. It's 158 <80 character lines long.
About how short should a program be to be postable to this newsgroup - in other words, at what length should you stick it on a web page and post a link? Peter -- A frightful hobgoblin is stalking throughout Europe. - The Communist Manifesto, 1st English Edition -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list