On Oct 2, 3:50 pm, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rs387 wrote: > > I see. Do you know whether this is seen as a problem with the language > > design? > > No.
OK, I get it now. I was assuming that the "+" could be implemented in terms of "+=" as follows: def add(x,y): temp = list(x) temp += y return temp But it turns out that this is not what "+" means at all. A bit of a gotcha... Roman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list