How to add element in Python to the end of list using list.insert?

Question

There is a list, for example,

a=[1,2,3,4] 

I can use

a.append(some_value) 

to add element at the end of list, and

a.insert(exact_position, some_value) 

to insert element on any other position in list but not at the end as

a.insert(-1, 5) 

will return [1,2,3,5,4]. So how to add an element to the end of list using list.insert(position, value)?

Answer 1

You'll have to pass the new ordinal position to insert using len in this case:

In [62]:  a=[1,2,3,4] a.insert(len(a),5) a Out[62]: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 

Answer 2

list.insert with any index >= len(of_the_list) places the value at the end of list. It behaves like append

Python 3.7.4 >>>lst=[10,20,30] >>>lst.insert(len(lst), 101) >>>lst [10, 20, 30, 101] >>>lst.insert(len(lst)+50, 202) >>>lst [10, 20, 30, 101, 202] 

Time complexity, append O(1), insert O(n)