Oct. 20, 2005
4:08 p.m.
"Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message news:432E4BC9.1020100@canterbury.ac.nz...
Karl Chen wrote:
Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this: a = [1, 2] [ 'x', *a, 'y']
as syntactic sugar for a = [1, 2] [ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ].
You can write that as a = [1, 2] a[1:1] = a
I'm sure you meant to write: a = [1, 2] b = ['x', 'y'] b[1:1] = a Occasional absence of mind makes other people feel useful! PS actually one *can* write a = [1, 2] ['x', 'y'][1:1] = a since this is not actually an assignment but rather syntactic sugar for a function call, but I don't know how one would use the modified list, since b = ['x','y'][1:1] = a doesn't quite fulfill the initial requirement ;)