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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:44:10 -0700
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On 04/03/2014 11:49 AM, fbicknel@gmail.com wrote:
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> I put this into pythontutor.com's code visualization tool (http://goo.gl/XOmMjR) and it makes more sense what's going on.
>
> I thought this was interesting; thought I would share.

That visualization tool is certainly neat, thanks!

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~Ethan~