Why doesn't python's list append() method return the list itself?

[Nathan Rice]

Yeah, I long ago filed the in place place in the same folder as
strings-as-sequences, all() returning True for an empty iterable and any
returning True rather than the thing which triggered it.  Almost always
annoying and worked around, but that's the price you pay for the other nice
stuff :)  It just takes writing a few hundred lines of Java code for me to
shrug and forget about it.
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