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Nick Limber
601 PointsHow to use .insert
What should I have done?
best = [1, 2, 3]
best.extend([4, 5])
best.insert([0, "start"])
1 Answer
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 PointsHi Nick,
You are so close.
When you did the second task and appended two new values, the values went inside square brackets that are inside parenthesis. This is because you had to pass two arguments, but the append() method only take one parameter. Using the square brackets created a tuple, and thus it was only a single parameter being passed in.
Now the third task, using the insert() method, you need to pass in two parameters. One for the position and one for the value. When you enclose these inside of square brackets, you are creating a tuple, so the method is missing a value. The compiler sees best.insert([0, "start"]) as being told to insert the number 0 and the string "start", and therefore doesn't have a place to insert them.
All you need to do is remove the square brackets, and then you'll have 2 arguments being passed in, and the compiler then reads it as insert the string at position 0.
I hope that makes sense. :)
Keep Coding!
