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How can I append an item to a list and find out its index?

Feb 14th, 2007 15:40
Laudeci Oliveira, Andrew Donnellan,

The append method says:
   append(...)
       L.append(object) -- append object to end

So, to find the index of the new item you can use len(list)

Ex.

>>> a = ['a']
>>> a.append('b')
>>> print len(a)