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Document the new list.extend() method. Interesting enough, the 

canonical definition of extend() is very similar to append() except
that the former doesn't list-ify the argument!
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Barry Warsaw 1998-10-09 16:39:58 +00:00
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@ -452,6 +452,8 @@ The following operations are defined on mutable sequence types (where
{same as \code{\var{s}[\var{i}:\var{j}] = []}}{}
\lineiii{\var{s}.append(\var{x})}
{same as \code{\var{s}[len(\var{s}):len(\var{s})] = [\var{x}]}}{}
\lineiii{\var{s}.extend(\var{x})}
{same as \code{\var{s}[len(\var{s}):len(\var{s})] = \var{x}}}{(5)}
\lineiii{\var{s}.count(\var{x})}
{return number of \var{i}'s for which \code{\var{s}[\var{i}] == \var{x}}}{}
\lineiii{\var{s}.index(\var{x})}
@ -476,6 +478,7 @@ The following operations are defined on mutable sequence types (where
\stindex{del}
\withsubitem{(list method)}{%
\ttindex{append}%
\ttindex{extend}%
\ttindex{count}%
\ttindex{index}%
\ttindex{insert}%
@ -509,6 +512,9 @@ by other mutable sequence types than lists.
The optional argument \var{i} defaults to \code{-1}, so that
by default the last item is removed and returned.
\item[(5)] Raises an exception when \var{x} is not a list object. The
\method{extend()} method is experimental and not supported by mutable types
other than lists.
\end{description}