On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 2:15 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> >> wrote: >>> Mikhail V wrote:
>> Sorry for repeating myself, the idea was that the default meaning is >> append(), >> i.e. normal operator usage on list: >> >> L1 = L2 ^ item - would be same as >> L1 = L2.append(item) > > Not sure exactly what your intention here is, because list.append > mutates the list and returns None. Does "L2 ^ item" mutate L2 in > place, or does it construct a new list? If it mutates in place, does > it return the same list? Or if doesn't, how is it different from "L2 + > [item]", which is a much more logical spelling of list addition? I made wrong example again. So L1 = L2 ^ item is L1 = L2 + [item] and L ^= item is L.append(item) or L += [item] _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
