Further adventures in array slicing.
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Fri May 4 18:49:32 EDT 2007
> A second question is: When can you use += vs .append().
> Are the two always the same?
They are never the same unless you only add one item to the list.
append() will only increase the length of a list by 1.
la = [1,2]
lb = [3, 4, 5]
la += lb
print la
lc = [1,2]
lc.append(lb)
print lc
--output:--
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[1, 2, [3, 4, 5]]
print la[2]
print lc[2]
--output:--
3
[3, 4, 5]
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