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[Guido van Rossum]

Also, we shouldn't introduce multiple ways of spelling the same operation
if we can help it.

On Wednesday, March 27, 2013, Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 3/27/2013 10:29 PM, Shane Green wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if there's anything inherently wrong with this idea, and I
>> am well aware how incredibly easy it is to implement as an extension of
>> the built-ins, but, I find it very useful to have /variations/ of
>> list().append(obj) and set().add(obj) that return, obj.
>>
>
> There are other people who agree with you, but it is Guido's design
> decision from the beginning of Python that mutation methods do not return
> the object mutated.
>
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