The end of what I was trying to do was encode and decode using ITA2 International Telegraph Alphabet 2, more commonly called Baudot. It uses 5 bit binary but with the use of a shift up or a shift down can utilize 2 tables of 32- one for letters one for figures.
A better explanation of ITA2 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot It occurred to me that rather than writing for four data dictionaries (bin to ltrs, bin to figs, figs, to bin, figs to letters), I could just swap the dictionary key/value pairs around. It seems that I have more reading to do. I have not gotten to lambda formations yet. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
