Learn the basics of Python 3-Chapter 3:Lists--Working With Lists In Python

1.Working with Lists

Now that we know how to create and access list data, we can start to explore additional ways of working with lists.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

        Add and remove items from a list using a specific index.
        Create lists with continuous values.
        Get the length of a list.
        Select portions of a list (called slicing).
        Count the number of times that an element appears in a list.
        Sort a list of items.

2.Adding by Index: Insert

The Python list method .insert() allows us to add an element to a specific index in a list.

The .insert() method takes in two inputs:
The index you want to insert into.
The element you want to insert at the specified index.

front_display_list = ["Mango", "Filet Mignon", "Chocolate Milk"]
print(front_display_list)

front_display_list.insert(0, "Pineapple")
print(front_display_list)

3.Removing by Index: Pop

The .pop() method takes an optional single input:
The index for the element you want to remove.

data_science_topics = ["Machine Learning", "SQL", "Pandas", "Algorithms", "Statistics", "Python 3"]
print(data_science_topics)

data_science_topics.pop()
print(data_science_topics)

data_science_topics.pop(3)
print(data_science_topics)

4.Consecutive Lists: Range

The function range() takes a single input, and generates numbers starting at 0 and ending at the number before the input.

number_list = range(9)
# print(number_list)
print(list(number_list))

zero_to_seven = range(8)
print(list(zero_to_seven))

5.The Power of Range!

By default, range() creates a list starting at 0. However, if we call range() with two inputs, we can create a list that starts at a different number.

# If we use a third input, we can create a list that “skips” numbers.
range_five_three = range(5, 15, 3)

range_diff_five = range(0, 40, 5)

6.Length

Often, we’ll need to find the number of items in a list, usually called its length.
We can do this using a built-in function called len().

long_list = [1, 5, 6, 7, -23, 69.5, True, "very", "long", "list", "that", "keeps", "going.", "Let's", "practice",
             "getting", "the", "length"]

big_range = range(2, 3000, 10)

long_list_len = len(long_list)
print(long_list_len)

big_range_length = len(big_range)
print(big_range_length)

big_range = range(2, 3000, 100)
print(len(big_range))

7.Slicing Lists I

In Python, often we want to extract only a portion of a list. Dividing a list in such a manner is referred to as slicing.

suitcase = ["shirt", "shirt", "pants", "pants", "pajamas", "books"]

beginning = suitcase[0:4]
print(beginning)

beginning = suitcase[0:2]
print(beginning)

middle = suitcase[2:4]
print(middle)

8.Slicing Lists II

suitcase = ["shirt", "shirt", "pants", "pants", "pajamas", "books"]

last_two_elements = suitcase[-2:]
print(last_two_elements)

slice_off_last_three = suitcase[:-3]
print(slice_off_last_three)

9.Counting in a List

If we want to know how many times i appears in this word, we can use the list method called .count(): We can even use .count() to count element appearances in a two-dimensional list.

votes = ["Jake", "Jake", "Laurie", "Laurie", "Laurie", "Jake", "Jake", "Jake", "Laurie", "Cassie", "Cassie", "Jake",
         "Jake", "Cassie", "Laurie", "Cassie", "Jake", "Jake", "Cassie", "Laurie"]

jake_votes = votes.count("Jake")
print(jake_votes)

10.Sorting Lists I

 We can sort a list using the method .sort().

addresses = ["221 B Baker St.", "42 Wallaby Way", "12 Grimmauld Place", "742 Evergreen Terrace",
             "1600 Pennsylvania Ave", "10 Downing St."]

names = ["Ron", "Hermione", "Harry", "Albus", "Sirius"]
names.sort()

cities = ["London", "Paris", "Rome", "Los Angeles", "New York"]
sorted_cities = cities.sort()

addresses.sort()
print(addresses)

print(sorted_cities)

cities.sort(reverse=True)
print(cities)

11.Sorting Lists II

A second way of sorting a list in Python is to use the built-in function sorted().
The sorted() function is different from the .sort() method in two ways:
    It comes before a list, instead of after as all built-in functions do.
    It generates a new list rather than modifying the one that already exists.

games = ["Portal", "Minecraft", "Pacman", "Tetris", "The Sims", "Pokemon"]

games_sorted = sorted(games)
print(games)
print(games_sorted)

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