[Python-ideas] Alternative spelling for list.append()

Juancarlo Añez apalala at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 20:52:14 EDT 2018


> The idea is to introduce new syntax for the list.append() method.
>
>
> Syntax:
>
> Variant 1.
> Use special case of index, namely omitted index:
>
>     mylist[] = item
>

For all practical purpose, it would be enough to define that the expression:

mylist += [item]


gets optimized to mylist.append(item).


-- 
Juancarlo *Añez*
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