preferred syntax for list extend?

[Andy Gimblett]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:01:48AM +0200, Ante wrote:
> 
> Even if it was faster, I would still prefer +=.  foo.extend(yada)
> doesn't look beautiful to me at all.  After all, why do we have,
> e.g. == operator so we can say if a == b and not a.equals(b)?
> Because the former is simply better looking, and to me the same
> applies to += versus .extend() or even .append()

True, but note that += won't work with old python interpreters, which
might be one reason for using extend()

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