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arielp
3,516 Pointsbeatles [list]
why is this is wrong?
beatles.append([others])
it seems to be working in the console, all names do move to the Beatles [list], but when this method is used to answer the question the program is expecting ".extend" and it was flagged as wrong.
are both method ok to use in a real-world scenario or besides that it works this would be considered bad practice or something like that?
many thanks.
beatles = ["John"]
others = ["George", "Ringo"]
beatles.append("Paul")
beatles.append([others])
3 Answers
Eric M
11,546 PointsHi Arielp,
This is not an academic distinction purely for practicing extend, are you sure your console is showing exactly what is requested?
list.append() and list.extend() actually do different things when passed another list as arguments.
The code that you've provided will lead the list beatles to contain
['John', 'Paul', ['George', 'Ringo']]
This is not a 4 item list containing strings. This is a 3 item list (try len(beatles)) containing two strings and a list. Index 0 is "John", index 1 is "Paul", index 2 is a list containing 2 items.
Append adds to the end of the list. Extend will add items from one list to another.
Happy coding,
Eric
Barry Snowe
51,277 PointsIt seems that the interpreter expects something other than .append() to add the array. .append() worked fine for one value. Maybe try .extend() and see what happens.
arielp
3,516 Pointsthanks Guys!