List

Introduction
• Contains multiple values that are logically related
• List is a type of mutable sequence in Python
• Each element of a list is assigned a number – index / position
• Can do indexing, slicing, adding, multiplying, and checking for
membership
• Built-in functions for finding length of a sequence and for finding its
largest and smallest elements
What is a List?
• Most versatile data type in Python
• Comma-separated items can be collected in square brackets
• Good thing is..
• THE ITEMS IN THE LIST NEED NOT BE OF SAME TYPE
 Creating a list
• Creating an EMPTY • Creating a list with items
list listname = [item1, item2, ….]
listname = [] Example:
Example: Temp = [100, 99.8, 103, 102]
L1 = [] S = [‘15BIT0001’, ‘Achu’, 99.9]
MyList = []
L2 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Books = []
Course = [‘Python’, ‘C’, ‘C++’,
‘Java’]
List Length
• thislist = ["apple", "banana", "cherry", "orange", "kiwi", "melon", "mango"]
print(len(thislist))
Accessing elements
indexing
• print(thislist[1])
• Negative indexing
• print(thislist[-1])
• Range of indexes
• print(thislist[2:5])
• print(thislist[:4])
• print(thislist[2:])
• print(thislist[-4:-1])
• Change item value
• thislist[1] = "blackcurrant“

• thislist =
["apple", "banana", "cherry", "orange", "kiwi", "man
go"]
thislist[1:3] = ["blackcurrant", "watermelon"]
• Insert Items
Without replacing any of the existing values
insert(index,value)
thislist = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"]
thislist.insert(2, "watermelon")

Append items
thislist = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"]
thislist.append("orange")
print(thislist)
Remove list items
• thislist.remove("banana")
• thislist.pop(1)
• thislist.pop()
• del thislist[0]
• del thislist
• thislist.clear()
• Sorting
• thislist.sort()

• thislist =
["orange", "mango", "kiwi", "pineapple", "banana"]
thislist.sort(reverse = True)
print(thislist)

• thislist.reverse()
Basic Operations in List

• >>> len([1, 2, 3]) # Length

3

• >>> [1, 2, 3] + [4, 5, 6] # Concatenation

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

• >>> ['Ni!'] * 4 # Repetition ['Ni!', 'Ni!', 'Ni!', 'Ni!']

Copy a List

• list2 = list1

• thislist = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"]
mylist = thislist.copy()
print(mylist)

• thislist = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"]
mylist = list(thislist)
print(mylist)
Join Lists

• list1 = ["a", "b", "c"]
list2 = [1, 2, 3]

list3 = list1 + list2

print(list3)

• list1 = ["a", "b" , "c"]
list2 = [1, 2, 3]

for x in list2:
  list1.append(x)

print(list1)

• list1 = ["a", "b" , "c"]
list2 = [1, 2, 3]

list1.extend(list2)
print(list1)
List Comprehensions
• fruits =
["apple", "banana", "cherry", "kiwi", "mango"]
newlist = []

for x in fruits:
  if "a" in x:
    newlist.append(x)

print(newlist)
• fruits =
["apple", "banana", "cherry", "kiwi", "mango"]

newlist = [x for x in fruits if "a" in x]

print(newlist)
newlist =
[expression for item in iterable if condition == Tru
e]
newlist = [x for x in fruits if x != "apple"]
newlist = [x for x in fruits]
newlist = [x for x in range(10) if x < 5]
newlist = [x.upper() for x in fruits]
Methods

Method Description
append() Adds an element at the end of the list
clear() Removes all the elements from the list
copy() Returns a copy of the list
count() Returns the number of elements with the specified value

extend() Add the elements of a list (or any iterable), to the end of the current list

index() Returns the index of the first element with the specified value

insert() Adds an element at the specified position

pop() Removes the element at the specified position

remove() Removes the item with the specified value

reverse() Reverses the order of the list

sort() Sorts the list