Adding item in front of a list

[Jeff Bernstein]

How about the following?

>>> x = [2,3,4]
>>> x
[2, 3, 4]
>>> x[:0] = [1]
>>> x
[1, 2, 3, 4]

Jeff


Thomas Guettler <pan-newsreader at thomas-guettler.de> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.04.09.14.42.36.965880.811 at thomas-guettler.de>...
> Hi!
> 
> I think it would be nice if
>  l=[2, 3, 4]
>  l.insert(1)
> 
> would insert in front of the list, as opposed to append() which adds new
> elements at the end.
> 
> l.insert(1) looks better than l.insert(-1,1)
> 
>  thomas