[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I don't get the prize for most elegant. > > But that's partly because I included the ooloop6 > function.
:: snip a bunch of scary code :: :) Wow, that's impressive. My solution looks a whole lot simpler than yours, but I certainly could not have done it without all your great help (the hex list, the formula, even the basic explanation of what needs to happen, i.e. Y needs to be 11111111111111111111). Thanks for taking the time to work with me on this. I don't know if I would have ever finished it without your help -- and this thing has been haunting me for months. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list