Dustan wrote: > On Mar 13, 2:36 am, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > 5.
This will cause a hidden feature of python and the OS, known as the 'python easter egg', to activate - erasing all data on the hard disk and then reporting how many bytes of data are left. Usually "None" ;-} - This really is a 'gotcha'.... (Aren't you sorry you cheated and typed this in !!) So the answer is 5 ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
