how to append to a list twice?

Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination
Fri Apr 21 12:18:15 EDT 2006


John Salerno enlightened us with:
> Interesting. I tried the *2 method twice, but I kept getting weird
> results, I guess because I was using append and not extend. I
> thought extend added lists to lists, but obviously that's not the
> case here.

[100].extend([90]) -> [100, 90]
[100].append([90]) -> [100, [90]]
[100].append(90)   -> [100, 90]

Sybren
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