Who said you were a programmer?

I just spent more hours than I would like to confess writing a trivial Python program, as a sort of review of coding in python. I did an Octal integer to decimal conversion program with my own logic; emulating google AI's explanation of a manual technique for converting values.

Of course, python's int() function has an argument that effects the same conversion in only 2 lines of Python like this:

octal_str = "123"  decimal_num = int(octal_str, 8)

OTOH, I have become too facile at my normal review/learn another language algorithms like making an ASCII chart program, which I had done in Python years ago...

SO... what I mainly learned is what the weightlifter learns about weights--- 120 lbs. is always 120 lbs. worth of effort, and costs you the same work to get back in shape as it did before, except of course that as you get older, there is an increasing cost with advancing age.

The computer and Python language never give you a break, either-- old minds are also not as supple in recovery as old bodies.

It does make me want to attack my next nonfiction book, before the hill gets too much higher, because by abilities are eroding, slowly but surely.