John Salerno wrote: > I'm having some slight trouble understanding exactly why this creates an > infinite loop: > > L = [1, 2] > L.append(L)
I tried this with Python 2.3.5 and it handles this tailbiter in a very pleasantly surprising way: >>> l = [ 0, 1 ] >>> l.append( l ) >>> l [0, 1, [...]] >>> l[2] [0, 1, [...]] >>> l[2][2][2][2][2][2][2][0] 1 The [...] I have never seen before anywhere, is it documented? -- -- Ewald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
