Odd list behavior

[Emile van Sebille]

On 5/13/2009 2:51 PM Evan Kroske said...
> I'm working on a simple file processing utility, and I encountered a 
> weird error. If I try to get the first element of a list I'm splitting 
> from a string, 


What value of string gives these results?

Emile


> I get an error:
> 
> key = string.split()[0]
> Error!
> 
> However, I can slice the list like normal, but that gives me a 
> one-element-long list:
> 
> key = string.split()[:1]
> Success!
> 
> Finally, the operation works perfectly if I initialize the list beforehand:
> 
> list = string.split()
> key = list[0]
> Success!
> 
> Why does this happen?
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