Gabriel Zachmann wrote: > It seems to me that the following behavior of python (2.4.1) is > inconsistent: > > >>> a=1 > >>> b=a > >>> a+=1 > >>> b > 1 > >>> a > 2 > >>> a=[1,2] > >>> b=a > >>> b+=[3] > >>> a > [1, 2, 3] > >>> b > [1, 2, 3] > > Why was it implemented like this??
assuming that you know that integers cannot modified in place, and that += on a list is defined to be the same thing as a call to extend, what did you expect this to do? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
