> I think the problem is that y is used before the loop which creates it, > but x is used after the loop which creates it.
Well, you got me on that. Seems to be a matter of convention all the time. > People can cope with the expanded loop form where everything it is used > after it is introduced, and it would appear that they also cope well with > the perl way of doing everything backwards, but moving the last element to > the front while keeping everything else in the 'correct' order seems to > confuse a lot of people. > > Oh well, just wait until Python 2.5 comes out and we get people > complaining about the order of the new if statement. Sad, but true. But I'm a happy camper with list-comps and the new if-expression :) Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
