[newbie] A question about lists and strings

Rotwang sg552 at hotmail.co.uk
Fri Aug 10 11:12:20 EDT 2012


On 10/08/2012 10:59, Peter Otten wrote:
> [...]
>
> If you have understood the above here's a little brain teaser:
>
>>>> a = ([1,2,3],)
>>>> a[0] += [4, 5]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
>
>>>> a[0]
>
> What are the contents of a[0] now?

Ha, nice.


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