Confused: appending to a list
Rene Pijlman
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Thu Mar 23 11:46:34 EST 2006
DataSmash:
>I'm confused. Why is it that when I say "while len(list) < 5:", I get
>5 items in my list.
Because the last time when len(list) was < 5, the block of code following
the while executed and did something to the list to give it a length >= 5
(otherwise the block of code would be executed again and it wouldn't have
been the last time).
> list.append(num)
There you have it.
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