I discovered a humorous situation when playing around in Python 2.7. It seems that when I append a list onto itself, it seems to infinitely append itself onto the list. Here is the example that I used:
>>> x = ['a','b','c']
>>> x.append(x)
>>> x
['a', 'b', 'c', [...]]
>>> x[3]
['a', 'b', 'c', [...]]
>>> x[3][3][3]
['a', 'b', 'c', [...]]
>>> x[3][2]
'c'
Why wouldn't it just output as:
>>> x = ['a','b','c']
>>> x.append(x)
>>> x
['a', 'b', 'c', ['a','b','c']]
I'm just curious as to why this happens. I can't seem to find anything that adequately explains why this is. Thank you all very much!
