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Fri Feb 3 11:15:40 EST 2012
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Perhaps lists shouldn't define += at all, but then people will
> complain that mylist += another_list is slow. Telling them to use
> mylist.extend instead just makes them cranky. After all, mylist +
> another_list works, so why shouldn't += work?
It would work, it just wouldn't work in-place.
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