Add a string to a Python list

Question

movie_list=[]
movie_list.extend(movieid[1])
print movieid
print movie_list

I got the following output:

(832871, 'Espas en Hollywood')
['E', 's', 'p', 'a', 's', ' ', 'e', 'n', ' ', 'H', 'o', 'l', 'l', 'y', 'w', 'o', 'o', 'd']

Why did I get a character list as a result of append? What should I do if I 'd like to attach the string 'Espas en Hollywood' to movie_list?

i.e desired output:

['Espas en Hollywood']

midori · Answer 1 · 2016-02-05T03:19:21.347

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>>> movie_list = []
>>> movie_list.append('Espas en Hollywood')
>>> movie_list
['Espas en Hollywood']

If you want to use extend:

movie_list.append(['Espas en Hollywood'])

edited Feb 05 '16 at 03:19

answered Feb 05 '16 at 03:15

midori

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/252703/python-append-vs-extend – dwjohnston Feb 05 '16 at 03:16
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string is treated as a list – midori Feb 05 '16 at 03:17
@qwt185 - A python string is essentially an array of single letters. For example `"hello"[1] == 'e'` – dwjohnston Feb 05 '16 at 03:19

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