Is yours not Python? It looks like Python, though I guess technically you can’t concatentate lists to strings.
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Yeah mine is python but I was looking to return a list. I just tried yours in python and I see now that its an application of string formatting. Thanks for that, I didn’t know you could do that.
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No problem! Format strings are great. Not quite as cool as list comprehensions, but still great.
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While we’re doing sidetracks: what’s with the phrase “direct descendant”? Is there a way to be someone’s descendant involving a bank shot or something?
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I assume it’s to make clear he’s descended from Thomas Jefferson himself and not Jefferson’s brother or something. You’d think that would be a given, but it seems that the word has acquired a looser meaning:
descendant
noun
uk /dɪˈsen.dənt/ us /dɪˈsen.dənt/
a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild
Which would cover a great-great-…-great-nephew.
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A fitting portrait for the 4th of July.
My we some day live up to the ideals in Jefferson’s words:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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That new portrait looks really good. 
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What a handsome man. Original TJ: ugly as a rock. New SLN portrait? mwah PERFECTO!
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Also presumably a biological descendant as opposed to an adoptee or descendant of an adoptee.
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Obligatory:
Thomas Motherf—in’ Jefferson!
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Lol yup exactly what I was gonna reply, right down to the letter!
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Descendants of Frederick Douglass read extracts from his speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”:
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As much as I like these types of stories, the reality is that for this guy, Jefferson was just one of his 128 g-g-g-g-g-g-grandfathers, and he has hundreds if not thousands of cousins who can claim the same connection.
And? I can’t make that claim. I do claim to be descended from Laird Dufuss of the Scottish Dufusses, with somewhat greater distance but no less pride! 
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On a slight tangent: I happen to be an 8th generation direct descendant of a certain notable British Explorer. (great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson) Is there an ‘official’ way of collapsing down all those ‘greats’? (outside of using ‘8th generation direct descendant’, that is, unless that’s the official way of doing it.)
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