On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Eric J. Van der Velden <ericjvandervel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I understand this: > >>>> l=[1,2,3] >>>> l[1:2]=[8,9] >>>> l > [1,8,9,3] > > But how do you do this with list.insert?
You can't clobber existing items in the list using just .insert(), so the closest you could get is something like: del l[1] l.insert(1,9) l.insert(1,8) Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list