Thanks, everyone, for your help. It was a pretty narrow question because it's a pretty specific task, but only because I was guessing there was more than one way of shelling an acorn. My original idea was something a lot like:
lst = [] chars = '@*&^$&[EMAIL PROTECTED](&@$*(&[EMAIL PROTECTED](*&*(&c^&%&^%' for x in chars: if x in string.ascii_letters lst.append(x) But I was guessing there was an easier way (There was.). I'm actually working through this one site called http://www.pythonchallenge.com. Seems like a nifty way to learn a little more python. Thanks, Drew
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