Ed,
I should have realized that the nesting would create the problem, but i
didn't have
that in mind... i always thought that the difference between extend and
append
was that extend did not yield a nested list.
I really need to revisit this issue and get it right in my mind. It is
a 'gotcha'
John,
Thanks. Your message was very helpful. I will tattoo it to my forehead.
hehe... i notice that the "learning python" book also explains so of
this
and i shall study that as well
cheers,
kevin
On Apr 27, 2006, at 10:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 28/04/06, kevin parks <[EMAIL P
On 28/04/06, John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 28/04/06, kevin parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In most case you are fine operating on the list in place and altering the
> > existing list. In some cases you want your code to stop molesting your poor
> > mutables and really honestly sin
On 28/04/06, kevin parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In most case you are fine operating on the list in place and altering the
> existing list. In some cases you want your code to stop molesting your poor
> mutables and really honestly sincerly copy the dang thing. In this case i am
> making a fun
I know there is an answer to this somewhere. it is prolly the biggest
stumbling
block to all python n00bs, but it hasn't been an issue for me in a
while.
Suddenly i am getting bit by it and can't for the life of me keep
straight the
two way of opperating on lists.
In most case you are fine
