Loops in List

[nilamo]

the perl-ism is: there is more than one way to do it as i mentioned in post 3.  python can appear to be this way.

It's more than that, though.  Ther perl way, is that there are many ways to do something, and they're all equally valid.  In python, although there might be multiple ways to do something, most of them will be ugly as hell and obvious that you were trying to find "another" way to do it.