inserting into a list

[Mel Wilson]

John Salerno wrote:
> Christoph Haas wrote:
>> L[2:2]=[3]
[ ... ]
  What if you wanted to insert an actual list into that 
slot? Would
> you have to wrap it in double brackets?

Yep.

It's a strong-typing thing.  Slices of lists are lists, and 
therefore what you assign to one has got to be a list, or 
convertible to a list (a tuple would work.)

Python 2.4.2 (#1, Jan 23 2006, 21:24:54)
[GCC 3.3.4] on linux2
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 >>> a=[1,3,4]
 >>> a[2:3]
[4]
 >>> a[2:2]
[]
 >>> a[1:1]=[2]
 >>> a
[1, 2, 3, 4]
 >>> a[1:2]
[2]


         Mel.