It makes sense because a slice IS a list, so you should assign a list to it. Yours is just a special case in which the target slice has a length of zero. It's still a list, just an empty one:
>>> L = [1,2,4] >>> print L[2:2] [] As for your question, yes: >>> L = [1,2,4] >>> L[2:2] = [[3]] >>> print L [1, 2, [3], 4] Cheers! :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
