Thanks to all for many helpful suggestions. Python, by the way, is verbose when compared to APL. (See http://catpad.net/michael/apl/ if you don't believe this.) You need to stick in an adverb (maybe "gracefully concise") as standalone "concise" is owned by APL.
Basilisk96 wrote: > Did programmers stop writing programs on punch cards because they ran > out of punch paper? If you drive on the NYS Thruway, you still get a punch card when you enter. You turn it in when you pay your toll. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list