On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:11 PM, sunil tech <sunil.tech...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > Consider a list: a = [1,2,3] > > & a simple function, which when called it will append 100 to the list. > > def app(x): > return x.append(100) > > p = app(a) > > now list holds appended value [1,2,3,100] > but p is empty... why it is? > > please teach. > append() Method is a mutator; it modifies the list.
DOES NOT return the modified list; returns None to be exact HTH Asokan Pichai _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
