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Author eric.smith
Recipients eric.smith, iqanansoft
Date 2021-02-02.08:19:10
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That's the correct behavior. The elements given by the start and end range are replaced by what's on the right hand side of the assignment. They don't need to be the same length.

>>> list_test=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]
>>> list_test[2:5] = ['two', 'three']
>>> list_test
[0, 1, 'two', 'three', 5, 6]
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