[Python-Dev] timsort for jython

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

[Tim Peters]
>
> OTOH, I do expect that once code relies on stability, we'll have about as
> much chance of taking that away as getting rid of list.append().

There you go again! Your flip comment has got me thinking about the "one
best idiom" for list appending. So I'll ask the question. Is there a reason
to want to get rid of list.append()? How does one decide between
list.append() and augmented assignment (+=), such as:

>>> l = []
>>> l.append('something')
>>> l.append('else')
>>> l += ['to']
>>> l += ['consider']
>>> l
['something', 'else', 'to', 'consider']
>>>

And wasn't someone documenting current idioms in light of recent Python
features? Did that ever get posted anywhere?

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