the \ as line continuation is really interesting, makes it really readable -- going to start doing that!
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Really liked the way you didn't cram it all onto one line, makes it easy to see what your doing :-)
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Wonder what the relative advantage is of .find() vs .index() or if its the same
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i was trying to figure out how to do something similar concatonating the strings but couldn't figure it out, nice!
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I got the same thing, I love list comprehension and it was cool to realize that range takes step size as a third, optional, parameter.
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I was stuck on trying to modify the first list but this approach makes much more sense...
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The use of lstrip is really smart, didn't know you could specify a value other than white space, as is storing each of the values in a list which you use max on.
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