Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > Hi, > > I am surprised that it took me so long to bloody my nose on this one. > > It must be well known - and I would like to find out how well known. > > So here is a CLOSED BOOK multiple choice question - no RTFM, > no playing at the interactive prompt: > > Given the following three lines of code at the interactive prompt: > > foo = [1,2,3,4] > x = foo.append(5) > print x > > What will be the output (choose one): > > 1) [1,2,3,4] > 2) [1,2,3,4,5] > 3) That famous picture of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue > 4) Nothing - no output > 5) None of the above > > I undertake to summarise answers posted to complete this "survey".
None, as python chose deliberately to return None on mutating functions like append, sort and reverse. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
