Hello all, I'm new to Python but quite familiar with Lisp. So my question is about Python list-related functions. Why append(), extend(), sort(), reverse() etc. doesn't return a reference to it's own (modified) argument ? IMHO (I'm tweaking Python 2.1 to allow first example possible), >>> [3 + x * 2 for x in [5, 8, 9, 3].sort()].extend([6, 3, 8].reverse()) [9, 13, 19, 21, 8, 3, 6] >>> looks much better (and more "functional") than >>> x = [5, 8, 9, 3] >>> x.sort() >>> x = [3 + x * 2 for x in x] >>> y = [6, 3, 8] >>> y.reverse() >>> x.extend(y) >>> x [9, 13, 19, 21, 8, 3, 6] >>> Python designers and fans, please explain it to me :-). Any comments are welcome. Thanks and reply to me directly if possible, Dmitry Antipov <dmitry.antipov@auriga.ru>
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