[].extend only accepts list?

Kannan Vijayan kvijayan at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Sat Nov 27 01:08:13 EST 1999


Quinn Dunkan (quinn at groat.ugcs.caltech.edu) wrote:
> Is there any reason why the extend method of lists shouldn't accept any
> sequence?

the extend method checks to see if the argument is a list.  You
can easily get past this by using the list() function

y = ["one", 2, "three"]

y.extend(list(("four", 5.0, 3*2)))

y -> ["one", 2, "three", "four", 5.0, 6]

you can use this method with any sequence, including strings, and tuples.

-kannan




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