Why doesn't this work?

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Thu Dec 6 23:06:53 EST 2001


Python 2.2b2 (#26, Nov 16 2001, 11:44:11) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
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>>> def f(): return [1,2,3]

>>> f()
[1, 2, 3]
>>> f().append(4)
>>> l=f().append(4)
>>> l
>>> 

Obviously I can fix this, but I'm wondering why it doesn't work
the way I expected it to?

C//




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