[Tutor] appending/updating values dict key value pairs

[Mark Lawrence]

On 22/06/2013 17:56, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
>
> What's the best way to append to the list which is the value to a dict
> key?
>
> I did the following based on the docs and I'm not sure why it works
>
>>>> b = { 'a': [4, 5]}
>>>> list.append(b.get('a'),'c')
>>>> b
> {'a': [4, 5, 'c']}
>>>>
>
>
> as in, shouldn't it be
>
> b['a'] = list.append(b.get('a'),'c')
>
> which doesn't seem to work.
>
>   sivaram
>   --

b['a'].append('c')

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Mark Lawrence