# Appending a variable to a list, howto?  - "Error was can only concatenat e list (not \\"unicode\\") to list"}"

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**Created:** [April 22, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/appending-a-variable-to-a-list-howto-error-was-can-only-concatenat-e-list-not-unicode-to-list/21240 "2016-04-22T02:23:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moshe\_Suberri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@Moshe\_Suberri](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Moshe_Suberri)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/appending-a-variable-to-a-list-howto-error-was-can-only-concatenat-e-list-not-unicode-to-list/21240/1 "2016-04-22T02:23:10Z")

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Error message: fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =\> {“failed”: true, “msg”: “an unexpected type error occurred. Error was can only concatenate list (not "unicode") to list”}

Example:  
my\_list=  
my\_var=“var1”

my\_list= mylist+my\_var

final results:  
my\_List=[“var1”]

how do I do that?