On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Daniel Pearson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the >following: > > I am usually experienced enough with enought technologies to know if > > something is missing. For instance, when I hacked a Python script I found, > > I was looking for a way to concatenate two arrays (i.e: the equivalent of > > @a,@b in perl) because I knew I've seen it in Perl. I eventaully could not > > find a Python primitive to do it, and I even found a web-page that said > > Python did not have such. (a,b in python will give an array containing > > the array "a" as its first element and "b" as its second. %-)) > > Forgive me for picking on such a minor point, but I can't bear to see my > beloved Python maligned by the notion that it has no primitive operation for > concatenating arrays. Such an operation is incredibly simple in Python, as the > following snippet from a session with the interactive Python interpreter shows: > > >>> a = [1, 2, 3] > >>> b = [4, 5, 6, 7] > >>> c = a + b > >>> print c > [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] >
Gotcha. So, + is used for numeric addition, string concatenation and array concatenation. OK. > This operation is very well documented in both the Python Tutorial > <http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node5.html#SECTION005140000000000000000> > and in the Python Library Reference > <http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesseq.html>. > All I know is that I could not find it when I looked for it. Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- > { Daniel Jacob Pearson | sensible driver at } > { <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | -- jeff covey } > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
