On 6/14/07, HMS Surprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wondered if there was some python idiom for moving a few items > from one list to another. I often need to delete 2 or 3 items from one > list and put them in another. Delete doesn't seem to have a return > value. I don't care which items I get so now I just use a couple of > pops or a for loop for more than two.
I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, but if the elements in the list are contiguous you can just use list slicing/addition, like this: a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] b = [6, 7, 8, 9, 10] b = a[2:] + b a = a[:2] Now the contents of a and b respectively are a = [1, 2] and b = [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. -- Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
