Bug or feature?

[Rikard Bosnjakovic]

Markus Reitz wrote:

> I expected a TypeError message, because a String is not a list and so it
> can't be used to extend an existing list.

No, but a String is a sequence.  Try [].extend(4711) and you will get
the following error:

TypeError: list.extend() argument must be a sequence

And a sequence could be parsed like what you wrote, "a list of
characters".


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