Thanks, I'll look at the cookbook! I didnt know it was available online. I did look at your example about using the longest number, but I couldnt really understand all of the code, and ended up deciding to arrange it so that the two columns were left-aligned: it looked like it would align them down the center in your example? Let me know if I am misunderstanding something.
Re: the key discussion: that was very helpful, thank you! So if I had a list of tuples, and I wanted to use the "key" function to arrange the list of tuples by the second tuple item, I would define a function that returns the second tuple item, and then do key=find_second()? or could i just do key=[1]? since i'm sorting tuples by a part of a tuple, it gets more confusing than when I was sorting simple lists. ~Denise _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
