Re: list.insert

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Eric J. Van der Velden wrote: > Hi, > > I understand this: > l=[1,2,3] l[1:2]=[8,9] l > [1,8,9,3] > > But how do you do this with list.insert? You can't clobber existing items in the list using just .insert(), so the closest you could get is somethi

Re: list.insert

2010-07-14 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/14/2010 7:54 AM Eric J. Van der Velden said... Hi, I understand this: l=[1,2,3] l[1:2]=[8,9] l [1,8,9,3] But how do you do this with list.insert? >>> l = [1,2,3,4] >>> l[1:2]="" >>> dummy = [l.insert(1,x) for x in reversed([8,9])] Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo