"a better input"

[John La Rooy]

Speaking of which, does this make *sense* ?

>>> l=[]
>>> l+=(1,2)
>>> l=l+(3,4)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "tuple") to list

John

On Fri, 10 May 2002 09:00:26 -0600
"Andrew Dalke" <dalke at dalkescientific.com> wrote:

> Me:
> >> I suppose you're also going to tell me that
> >>  [].append(1,2) no longer works?
> 
> Louis M. Pecora:
> >This is a joke, right?  :-) ?  :-| ?  :-( ?
> 
> It's a joke in that I know it changed and that I know that
> feature was deprecated something like 8-10 years ago and that
> it was not documented as valid.  Were I still using 1.5.2 it
> would work, but the likelihood of someone using that feature
> in pre-2.0 and realizing it might have been changed in newer
> releases without knowing it explicitly from reading the change
> log is, I think, quite small.
> 
> As such, this limp joke was meant for people who know the
> history of changes in Python.  And only people using pre-2.0
> would be confused, since you can always try that line out
> to see what it says.
> 
> It's not a joke in that multi-parameter append truely is no
> longer allowed.
> 
>                     Andrew
>                     dalke at dalkescientific.com
> 
> 
>