On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Jan Sipke <jansi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you explain why there is a difference between the following two > statements? > >>>> a = [] >>>> a.append(1) >>>> print a > [1]
This looks at the list after appending. >>>> print [].append(1) > None This looks at the return value of the append() method. Since it doesn't return self, the return value isn't much use. Incidentally, your function call in the first block would have displayed the return value had it not been None - that's how the interactive interpreter works. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
