[issue35421] Expected result is not clear in case of list.append(list)

2018-12-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Lingaraj: the fact that you use IDLE to run Python code, with the same binary executable that is running IDLE, does not make the result an IDLE issue. (This is a common mistake of beginners who use IDLE.) Anyway, an infinite string, the 'accurate' result, o

[issue35421] Expected result is not clear in case of list.append(list)

2018-12-05 Thread Eric V. Smith
Eric V. Smith added the comment: The ... denotes a recursive data structure, which is what you've created here by "a" including itself as an element. I'm not clear what you expected to see, but I'm going to close this because I don't see an actual problem here. If you think there's a bug in

[issue35421] Expected result is not clear in case of list.append(list)

2018-12-05 Thread Lingaraj Gowdar
New submission from Lingaraj Gowdar : Currently the output of below append cannot be used for practical purpose, This jira is to get the expectation for a case in append. >>> a=[1,2] >>> a.append(a) >>> a [1, 2, [...]] >>> -- assignee: terry.reedy components: IDLE messages: 331148 nos