From: Erik M. Bray <embray@stsci.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 01:38:46 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Practiced what we preach in the exercise solutions.  Updated the Readme with a hint.
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Practiced what we preach in the exercise solutions.  Updated the Readme with a hint.

W. Trevor King: I dropped everything from the original 9448bfa except
for the python/sw_engineering/ modifications.

Conflicts:
	python/intro/Exercise_solutions.ipynb
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diff --git a/python/sw_engineering/README.md b/python/sw_engineering/README.md
index 423c18b..791f374 100644
--- a/python/sw_engineering/README.md
+++ b/python/sw_engineering/README.md
@@ -21,10 +21,21 @@ Exercises
 Exercise 1
 ----------
 
-Make a new text file called `animals.py`. Copy the file reading
-function from yesterday's IPython notebook into the file and modify it
-so that it returns the columns of the file as lists (instead of printing
-certain lines).
+Make a new text file called `animals.py`. Copy the file reading function from
+this morning's IPython notebook into the file and modify it so that it returns
+the columns of the file as lists (instead of printing certain lines).
+
+Hint: Before the loop create an empty lists like:
+
+    times = []
+    dates = []
+    # etc...
+
+In the loop use:
+
+    times.append(...)  # Replace the ... with the appropriate variable
+    dates.append(...)
+    # etc...
 
 Exercise 2
 ----------