list.insert

[Chris Rebert]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Eric J. Van der Velden
<ericjvandervelden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I understand this:
>
>>>> l=[1,2,3]
>>>> l[1:2]=[8,9]
>>>> l
> [1,8,9,3]
>
> But how do you do this with list.insert?

You can't clobber existing items in the list using just .insert(), so
the closest you could get is something like:
del l[1]
l.insert(1,9)
l.insert(1,8)

Cheers,
Chris
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