Why doesn't python's list append() method return the list itself? For that matter, even the reverse() and sort() methods? I found this link (http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python- class/lists.html) which suggests that this is done to make sure that the programmer understands that the list is being modified in place, but that rules out constructs like: ([1,2,3,4].reverse()+[[]]).reverse() I want to prepend an empty list to [1,2,3,4]. This is just a toy example, since I can always do that with [[]]+[1,2,3,4].
Regards, -Dhruv. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
