> > did you mean list.__add__()...? list.__iadd__ IS just as permissive > > as list.extend, it seems to me. > > Hmm, I did mean __iadd__() but misremembered what it did. You're forgiven, at some point in the past they *were* different. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)