[Tutor] Can you modify every nth item in a list with a single assignment?

[Gus Tabares]

Bob Gailer wrote:

>> What we need here is a new language feature that lets us provide a 
>> sequence of index values to a list. Something like:
>>
>> MyList[(1,4,9,23)] = MyList[(1,4,9,23)] + 43

> This can be done easily enough without adding a new feature, it just 
> takes two lines instead of one


Or another healthy alternative, on one line:

map((lambda x: x + 43), [1, 4, 9, 23])


HTH,
Gus



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