a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] b = [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]  b = a[2:] + b a = a[:2]  Now the contents of a and b respectively are a = [1, 2] and b = [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].

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