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This document provides an overview of Python lists, detailing their characteristics, such as being mutable and capable of holding multiple data types. It covers accessing, updating, and deleting list elements, as well as basic operations and built-in functions and methods related to lists. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate the concepts discussed.

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This document provides an overview of Python lists, detailing their characteristics, such as being mutable and capable of holding multiple data types. It covers accessing, updating, and deleting list elements, as well as basic operations and built-in functions and methods related to lists. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate the concepts discussed.

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Python Programming

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Lists
Learning outcomes:

Python Lists
Accessing Values in Lists
Updating Lists
Deleting List Elements
Basic List Operations
Built-in List Functions and Methods
List
The list is a most versatile data type available in
Python which can be written as a list of comma-
separated values (items) between square brackets.
Important thing about a list is that items in a list
need not be of the same type.
A single list may contain Data Types like Integers,
Strings, as well as Objects. Lists are mutable, and
hence, they can be altered even after their
creation. List in Python are ordered and have a
definite count. The elements in a list are indexed
according to a definite sequence and the indexing
of a list is done with 0 being the first index.
List
❖Collection of Multiple Data.
❖Holds Multiple Data types.
❖Lists are Mutable.
❖Store multiple data at same time.
❖Creating a list is as simple as putting different
comma-separated values between square brackets.
For example:
a = [1, 12.5, ‘a’, “python”]
list1 = ['physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000];
Accessing Values in Lists
To access values in lists, use the square brackets for
slicing along with the index or indices to obtain
value available at that index.
For example:
a = [1, 12.5, ‘a’, “python”, “Programming”]
print(a[1]) # Output is 12.5
print(a[3]) # Output is python
print(a[1:4]) # Output is [12.5, ’a’, ‘python’]
Accessing Values in Lists
Example:
L = [9,18,'Hi',12,"Hello",15.55,'Programming',100,125.5]
print(L[5])
print(L[1:5])
print(L[2:8])
print(L[2:9:3])
print(L[-1])
print(L[-5])
How to take every nth-element of a list?
What if we want to have only every 2-nd element
of L? This is where the step parameter comes into
play.
Accessing Values in Lists
Example:
L = [9,18,'Hi',12,"Hello",15.55,'Programming',100,125.5]

print(L[0:9:3]) # Here ‘3’ is step parameter

Now you also write the above code as


print(L[::3])

Here both print(L[0:9:3]) and print(L[::3]) gives an


output as [9, 12, 'Programming']
Accessing Values in Lists
Example:
L = [9,18,'Hi',12,"Hello",15.55,'Programming',100,125.5]
print (L[2::2]) # ['Hi', 'Hello', 'Programming', 125.5]
print (L[2::3]) # ['Hi', 15.55, 125.5]
print (L[3::3]) #[12, 'Programming']
print(L[5:-2]) # [15.55, 'Programming']
print(L[-2:-5:-1]) # [100, 'Programming', 15.55]
print(L[-2:-7:-2]) # [100, 15.55, 12]
Updating Lists
Lists in Python are mutable. All that means is that
after defining a list, it is possible to update the
individual items in a list.
You can update single or multiple elements of lists
by giving the slice on the left-hand side of the
assignment operator.
You can also add to elements in a list with the
append() method.
Updating Lists
Example:
z = [30, 17, 40, 2]
# Update the item at index 1 with the string
“python"
z[1] = "Python"
print(z) # Output->[30, 'Python', 40, 2]
z.append(100) #Use of append method to add 100
print(z) # Output->[30, 'Python', 40, 2, 100]
Deleting List Elements
To remove a list element, you can use either the
del statement or remove() method.
For Example:
b = ['Python', 100, 'Programming', 2, 'is']
del b[1] # deleting element of 1st index
print(b) # ['Python', 'Programming', 2, 'is']
b.remove(2) # Removing the element ‘2’
print(b) # ['Python', 'Programming', 'is']
Basic List Operations
Lists respond to the + and * operators much like
strings; they mean concatenation and repetition
here too, except that the result is a new list, not a
string.
Let’s see some of the basic list operations in
Python.
Built-in List Functions and
Methods
Python includes the following list functions:

cmp(list1, list2) : Compares elements of both lists.


Please note cmp() does not support in python 3.

len(list): Gives the total length of the list.


max(list):Returns item from the list with max value.
min(list): Returns item from the list with min value.

Let’s see the example of list functions.


Built-in List Functions and
Methods
Python includes following list methods:

list.append(obj): Appends object obj to list


list.count(obj): Returns count of how many times
obj occurs in list
list.index(obj): Returns the lowest index in list that
obj appears
list.insert(index, obj): Inserts object obj into list at
offset index
list.pop(obj=list[-1]) : Removes and returns last
object or obj from list
Built-in List Functions and
Methods
Python includes following list methods:

list.remove(obj): Removes object obj from list


list.reverse(): Reverses objects of list in place
list.sort([func]): Sorts objects of list, use compare
func if given
list.extend(seq): Appends the contents of seq to
list

Let’s see the example of list method.


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