append on lists

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-09-16, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> writes:
>
>> The only relatively common use I can think of where you might want to call 
>> a method directly on a literal is to produce a list of strings while being 
>> lazy about the typing:
>
> By far the most common is probably 'sep'.join(iterable).

It's also somewhat common to index into a literal:

 ['one','two','three'][n]

 {1:'one', 2:'two', 7:'seven'}[n]

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