>> awkwardly dancing with the interpreter until something appears to work is kind of exactly like throwing spaghetti at the wall. But awkwardly dancing with th

>> awkwardly dancing with the interpreter until something appears to work is kind of exactly like throwing spaghetti at the wall. But awkwardly dancing with the interpreter until something clicks in your head is highly valuable learning. In this case I kept waiting for the author to have a revelation or two - one about tuples, and one about proper use of dictionaries - but that never happened. I think it will in part 2, and then idiomatic python will fall out with the authors complete understanding of new concepts.