Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since range objects have a known length, that example is not enough to show 'any iterable'. However, generators do not even have a __length_hint__ and they work too.
a = [1,2,3] a[0:1] = (i for i in range(4)) print(a) >>> [0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3] ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17939> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
