Message 314707 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

a list contains elements that have never been appended

Why do we think that it's true?

1. The described result can be valid if there are "doubly quoted" strings in the input list.

2. Also, there could be a bug in unquote() which doesn't corrupt the list as a side effect, but simply returns a wrong result value, which is indeed appended to the output list at its turn.