On May 26, 12:46 am, Uncle Ben <bgr...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > In playing with lists of lists, I found the following: > > (In 3.1, but the same happens also in 2.7) > > list = [1,2,3] > list.append ( [4,5,6] ) > x = list > x -> > [1,2,3,[4,5,6]] > as expected. > > But the shortcut fails: > > list=[1,2,3] > x = list.append( [4,5,6] ) > x -> > nothing > > Can someone explain this to me? > > Uncle Ben
Thank you all. It is wonderful to have this community as a resource. Uncle Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
