Dan Schmidt dfan at thecia.net
Sat Sep 9 14:10:32 EDT 2000

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aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:

| In article <wkem2uixcq.fsf at turangalila.harmonixmusic.com>,
| Dan Schmidt  <dfan at harmonixmusic.com> wrote:
| >
| >Or in Python 2.0,
| >
| >  S = [[] for x in range(5)]
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| I'm calling once again for everyone to please refrain from giving
| Python 2.0 answers to questions unless the questioner specifically
| mentions Python 2.0.  IMO, it unnecessarily complicates things,
| because most people asking questions need to use a shipping version
| of Python.

I started by giving a 1.5 solution (snipped), and clearly marked the
list comprehension idiom as only being available in 2.0.  Is your issue
with presenting 2.0 features as if they were available to everyone, or
with just mentioning 2.0 features at all?  I was very careful not to do
the former.

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