changing list items

[eight02645999@yahoo.com]

hi

say i have a list

alist = ['a','b','c','e' ,'d','f']
I wanted to change the elements , say alist[2:4] .

If i do alist[2:4] = "t" , it gives
['a', 'b', 't', 'd', 'f'] which is not what i want.
I wanted alist = ['a','b','t','t' ,'d','f']

My list may have more elements, and i may need to replace elements from
different positions,
eg alist[10:15] , alist[30:40] etc..

thanks.

[bearophileHUGS@lycos.com]

Re: changing list items

A possibile first solution:

>>alist = ['a','b','c','e' ,'d','f']
>>inf, sup = 2, 4
>>alist[inf:sup] = ["t"] * (sup - inf)
>>alist

['a', 'b', 't', 't', 'd', 'f']

Bye,
bearophile