[Tutor] Creating a list of lists

[Ben Beuchler]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Doug Stanfield wrote:

> >>> list1 = [1,2,3]
> >>> list2 = [2,3,4]
> >>> list3 = [3,4,5]
> >>> the_list = []
> >>> the_list.append(list1)
> >>> the_list.append(list2)
> >>> the_list.append(list3)
> >>> the_list
> [[1, 2, 3], [2, 3, 4], [3, 4, 5]]
> >>>

No I feel like a real moron.  I was trying to do: 
the_list = the_list.append(list3)
which is obviously the wrong idea.  I forgot about append changing things in
place...

Thanks for pointing me back in the right direction!

Ben

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