> > e.g. can you predict the result of the following operations without trying it?
> >
> > a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
> > a[1:3] = [7, 8]
> > print a
>
> [1, 7, 8, 4] Whew!
> (I really wasn't positive that it shouldn't be [1, [7, 8], 4] !)
good job dick! of course, you *know* i'm going to ask this...
how *do* you get it to be [1, [7, 8], 4] given the original 'a'? :-)
I had to look at section 5.1 in the Python tutorial, for insert() and remove(), but didn't try them out. How about
a = [1,2,3,4]
a.remove(2)
a.remove(3)
a.insert(1,[7,8])
Next one?
Dick
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