[Tutor] About using list in a function

[Marc Tompkins]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 19/08/15 17:09, Michelle Meiduo Wu wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> I'm trying to use List in a function. But it doesn't work. Here are
>> sample code not work: ---------------------------------------def
>> getResult():    ls = []    ls= ls.append(100)    ls= ls.append(200)
>> return ls
>> reList = []reList = getResult()lsLength = len(reList)print '\n The length
>> of the list is:' + str(lsLength)-----------------------------------------I
>> ran the above code, there is an error message: AttributeError: 'NoneType'
>> object has no attribute 'append'
>> But the code below not using list in a function
>> works.----------------------------------------------### This works:ls =
>> []ls.append(100)ls.append(200)lsLength = len(ls)print '\n list length is: '
>> + str(lsLength)----------------------------------------------------- Do you
>> know  the reason?
>> Thank you,Michelle
>>
>
> As you can (hopefully!) see above, this message is completely scrambled.
> Normally that means HTML. But the headers suggest it is plain text.
> Also, I see that Steve replied with a correctly formatted inclusion.
>
> Did anyone else get the scrambled version?
> And does anyone have any clues why I did?
>
> (Using Thunderbird v31.8 and normally not having major issues.)
>
> Same here, using Gmail and usually pretty happy with it.

Completely off-topic: why such an old version of TBird?  I have some
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with corporate... but corporate IT hasn't dropped SSL 3.0 yet, so they
can't upgrade past version 33. (Every couple of weeks, despite my repeated
attempts to stop TBird from auto-updating, I find that they've got a new
version and can't connect.  Fortunately Mozilla hasn't changed their DB
format, so I can just re-install 33.)  Anyway, I know why _they_ are using
an old, less-secure version, but I'm curious why anybody else would be.