Bart> #--------------------------------------------------
Bart> def addnumber(alist, num):
Bart> """ work around the inplace-ness of .append """
Bart> mylist = alist[:]
Bart> mylist.append(num)
Bart> return mylist
Bart> #--------------------------------------------------
Bart> and I am wondering if this is good practice or not.
Bart> any advice on this matter?
Such an operation will be O(N**2), and thus expensive if performed
frequently on lists of moderate length. I've never been tempted to do this.
Can you say a little about why you'd want to do this? Knowing that, perhaps
someone here can point you in a more Pythonic direction.
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