python Modifying slice of list in function

Question

Consider the following piece of code:

def func1(a):
    a[:] = [x**2 for x in a]

a = range(10)
print a  #prints [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
func1(a[:5])
         


        

Answer 1

This will work:

a = range(10)

a[:5] = [c**2 for c in a[:5]]