On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM, spir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have long thought "[]" /simply/ is a list constructor syntax.
list(x) and [x] are not equivalent, as you have discovered. list(x) requires that x is a sequence - something that can be iterated - and it makes a new list out of the elements of the sequence. If x is not iterable then list(x) is an error; for example In [10]: list(1) TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /Users/kent/<ipython console> in <module>() TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable OTOH [x] just takes whatever x is and makes it the single element of a list. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
