On Dec 31, 12:46 pm, dubux <wx1...@gmail.com> wrote: > my head hurts from looking at it so long.
> mylist = map(lambda i: news_list[i], filter(lambda i: i%2 == > 0, range(len(news_list)))) > date = mylist[y] My head hurts from looking at that only briefly. Any good reason why you wrote that in such a fashion instead of: mylist = news_list[::2] date = mylist[y] or (even better): date = news_list[y * 2] ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list