I wish that [].append(x) returned [x]

[Michael Bentley]

On May 1, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Tobiah wrote:

> I wanted to do:
>
> 	query = "query text" % tuple()
>
> but the append() method returns none, so I did this:
>
> 	fields = rec[1:-1]
> 	fields.append(extra)
> 	query = "query text" % tuple(fields)
>

As you learned. .append() adds to an existing list rather than  
returning a new list.  You might be happier with:

query = "query text" % tuple(rec[1:-1] + [extra])