Python Mystery Theatre -- Episode 3: Extend this
Steven Taschuk
staschuk at telusplanet.net
Tue Jul 22 07:45:24 EDT 2003
Quoth Raymond Hettinger:
[...]
> Let me know if you learned something new along the way.
[...]
> ACT IV ---------------------
> pets = list('cat ')
> pets += 'dog '
> pets.extend('fish ')
> print pets + 'python'
This one was new to me -- I was shocked and amazed to learn that
list.__iadd__, unlike list.__add__, accepts arbitrary iterables.
[...]
> ACT VI -----------------------------------------
> print "What is the technical name for this algorithm or transformation?"
[...]
Heh. Nice one.
The technical name is "the identity transformation".
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