Thank you for your reply.
> > 1) Is what I wrote above (minimally) correct? > > Correct for what? You can tell if it's *syntactically* correct by > simply running it. > > As for any other "correct", define that. Does it do what you want it > to do? I was referring to my attempted explanation, not the code snippet. > [...] > > What's preventing the use of list comprehensions? > > new_list = [x+1 for x in old_list] Suppose I want to do anything as trivial as modify the values of the list members _and_ print their new values. List comprehensions must not contain statements, I think. Mack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
