Michalis Giannakidis wrote: >> "obj[index] = value" maps to "obj.__setitem__(index, value)". reading >> the documentation might help; start here: >> >> http://docs.python.org/ref/specialnames.html > > In this documentation page it also says: > --snip--- > then x[i] is equivalent3.2 to x.__getitem__(i). > --snip-- > This, and other statements, are only roughly true for instances of new-style > classes. > --snip-- > > So which statements are actually true for new style classes? > > Is l[0]=1 completely different from l.append(1) or maybe insert?
l.append(1) is a method call. L[0]=1 is syntactic sugar for a *different* method call. why is this so hard to understand? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list