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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:58:46 -0600
Subject: Re: Building lists
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
> For starters I would like to know if you can make a single item list
> and then turn it into a 2 item list.  Is there a command for that?

You mean like this?

>>> the_list = ['first_item']
>>> the_list.append('second_item')
>>> the_list
['first_item', 'second_item']