[Python-Dev] list splicing

[Greg Ewing]

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

Greg