What is the syntax to insert one list into another list in python?

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Given two lists:

x = [1,2,3]
y = [4,5,6]

What is the syntax to:

  1. Insert x into y such that y now looks like [1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6]]?
  2. Insert all the items of x into y such that y now looks like [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]?
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6 Answers

If you want to add the elements in a list (list2) to the end of other list (list), then you can use the list extend method

list = [1, 2, 3]
list2 = [4, 5, 6]
list.extend(list2)
print list
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Or if you want to concatenate two list then you can use + sign

list3 = list + list2
print list3
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
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You can also just do...

x += y
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If we just do x.append(y), y gets referenced into x such that any changes made to y will affect appended x as well. So if we need to insert only elements, we should do following:

x = [1,2,3] y = [4,5,6] x.append(y[:])

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