May I drop list bracket from list?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:12 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:

> If both list1 and fword are lists, you can also write
> 
> list1 = list1 + fword
> or
> list1 += fword


You can, but you shouldn't since it risks being very slow, especially the
first version. Repeated list addition has quadratic behaviour. It's okay if
you only add a few lists, but if there are thousands or millions of them,
it will be horribly slow. Using extend guarantees to modify the list in
place and avoid unnecessary copying of data.


-- 
Steven