Georg Brandl wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The following program does not work if you uncomment #lis = > > ["xmms2"] + list(args) > > > > Evidently Python is opting for the nullary constructor list() as > > opposed to the other one which takes a sequence. But no newcomer would > > know this. And the Python docs dont give a good example of dealing with > > taking a sequence of args and converting it to a list. > > Evidently you overlooked having defined a list() in global scope > yourself which takes no arguments.
MASSIVELY overlooked it. Gosh. How embarrassing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list