It was Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:00:50 GMT, when Kent Johnson wrote: > Bart Van Loon wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to find out of a good way to append an element to a list >> without chaing that list in place, like the builtin list.append() does. >> >> currently, I am using the following (for a list of integers, but it >> could be anything, really) >> >> #-------------------------------------------------- >> def addnumber(alist, num): >> """ work around the inplace-ness of .append """ >> mylist = alist[:] >> mylist.append(num) >> return mylist >> #-------------------------------------------------- > > Use + : > > In [1]: a=[1,2] > > In [2]: b=a+[3] > > In [3]: a > Out[3]: [1, 2] > > In [4]: b > Out[4]: [1, 2, 3]
should have known that... thanks for you fast response! -- regards, BBBart "Who can fathom the feminine mind?" -Calvin "I like `em anyway" -Hobbes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
