Re: Why does the insert after list function fail?

2016-09-22 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
38016226...@gmail.com writes: > A=["1","2","3"] > print(list(map(float,A)).insert(0,1)) > > I want to insert 1 at the head of the list but this gives me a surprise Is it the same surprise that you get from print([1,2,3].insert(0,1))? Or the more advanced surprise from print(A.insert(0,1))? -- h

Re: Why does the insert after list function fail?

2016-09-22 Thread Wildman via Python-list
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:29:12 -0700, 380162267qq wrote: > A=["1","2","3"] > print(list(map(float,A)).insert(0,1)) > > I want to insert 1 at the head of the list but this gives me a surprise I am not certain about what you are doing so I might be way off here. The following will insert 1 at the he

Re: Why does the insert after list function fail?

2016-09-22 Thread John Gordon
In <39ec91a8-eeae-489f-9237-9d9a481a8...@googlegroups.com> 38016226...@gmail.com writes: > A=["1","2","3"] > print(list(map(float,A)).insert(0,1)) > I want to insert 1 at the head of the list but this gives me a surprise insert() does not return anything; it modifies the existing list in-place.

Why does the insert after list function fail?

2016-09-22 Thread 380162267qq
A=["1","2","3"] print(list(map(float,A)).insert(0,1)) I want to insert 1 at the head of the list but this gives me a surprise -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list