En Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:24:56 -0300, David Williams <da...@bibliolabs.com>
escribió:
py> [1,2,3] + (4,5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "tuple") to list
In-place addition += does work:
py> a = [1,2,3]
py> a += (4,5)
py> a
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
I guess to expand a bit more on what I said... What should the result
be?
A list or a tuple? The reason += works is because the end result is
clear; a list. But it is ambiguous in the case of concatenation: did you
want a tuple or a list?
Uhm... it seems "obvious" to me that [1,2,3] + (4,5) should be
[1,2,3,4,5]. A list. That's what I would expect, although I cannot explain
why is it *so* obvious to me.
Given that 2 + 3.5, and 'abc' + u'def' both return an instance of their
right operand's type, I should probably revise my preconceptions...
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