in place-ness of list.append

Hi all,

I would like to find out of a good way to append an element to a list
without chaing that list in place, like the builtin list.append() does.

currently, I am using the following (for a list of integers, but it
could be anything, really)

#--------------------------------------------------
def addnumber(alist, num):
""" work around the inplace-ness of .append """
mylist = alist[:]
mylist.append(num)
return mylist
#--------------------------------------------------

and I am wondering if this is good practice or not.

any advice on this matter?

thanks!

--
regards,
BBBart

"Someday I'll write my own philosophy book." -Calvin
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