Concatenating two lists – difference between ‘+=’ and extend()

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I’ve seen there are actually two (maybe more) ways to concatenate lists in Python:

One way is to use the extend() method:

a = [1, 2]
b = [2, 3]
b.extend(a)

the other to use the plus (+) operator:

b += a

Now I wonder: which of those two options is the ‘pythonic’ way to do list concatenation and is there a difference between the two? (I’ve looked up the official Python tutorial but couldn’t find anything anything about this topic).

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