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On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:16:11 +0200, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
declaimed the following:

>You don't have to index them.  You can unpack them into a tuple
>of first, middle, last
>
>Laura  (who is trying not to do somebody's homework for them, since
>I'm not the person who needs to learn this).

	That only works if the input IS three names (My Birth Certificate reads
"Dennis Lee James Bieber"; and I often used to include my confirmation name
into the thing; I've grown out of that phase but do still sometimes use
dljjb as initials).

	Simple .split() and a {HP calculator} roll operation should get the
desired order.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/