Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this: a = [1, 2] [ 'x', *a, 'y'] as syntactic sugar for a = [1, 2] [ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ]. Notes: - This is a common operation - To me, the splicing form looks much better than the concatenation form - It can be implemented more efficiently than a bunch of list concatenations - This would be similar to the "apply" feature [ foo(*a) ]. The '*' operator is reminiscent of dereferencing operators in C-derived languages. Alternatively it could be '@', like perl's implicit array splicing, and Lisp's ',@' in backquoted lists. - (I know "splicing" traditionally refers to something else in Python, but other languages refer to this as splicing, and the English definition of "splice" applies better to this.) -- Karl 2005-09-18 18:26