Uncle Ben <bgr...@nycap.rr.com> writes: > Can someone explain this to me?
Yes, the documentation for that function (‘list.append’) can explain it. In short: if a method modifies the instance, that method does not return the instance. This policy holds for the built-in types, and should be followed for user-defined types also. -- \ “[I]t is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he | `\ thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus, _Discourses_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
