python alist.insert,list.insert()在python中实际做什么?

I have code like this:

squares = []

for value in range(1, 5):

squares.insert(value+1,value**2)

print(squares)

print(squares[0])

print(len(squares))

And the output is :

[1, 4, 9, 16]

1

4

So even if I ask python to insert '1' at index '2', it inserts at the first available index. So how does 'insert' makes the decision?

解决方案list.insert(i, x)

Insert an item at a given position. The first

argument is the index of the element before which to insert, so

a.insert(0, x) inserts at the front of the list, and a.insert(len(a),

x) is equivalent to a.append(x).

What is not mentionned is that you can give an index that is out of range and Python will then append to the list.

If you dig into the Python implementation you find the following in the ins1 function that does the insertion:

if (where > n)

where = n;

So basically Python will max out your index to the length of the list.