list.extend([]) Question

[Gerald Britton]

I think it's because when you do ['a'].extend([]) or whatever, the
result is whatever the method "extend" returns.  But "extend" has no
return value, hence you will see None if you do this interactively.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <088e7a24-b0d0-4d43-bee7-193e5eaefe57 at b7g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
> Dan Brown  <fsenzeru at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Why does extending a list with the empty list result in None?  It
>>seems very counterintuitive to me, at least --- I expected ['a'].extend
>>([]) to result in ['a'], not None.
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general/#why-doesn-t-list-sort-return-the-sorted-list
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