Questions

• How can I store many values together?

Objectives

• Explain what a list is.
• Create and index lists of simple values.
• Change the values of individual elements.
• Append values to an existing list.
• Reorder and slice list elements.
• Create and manipulate nested lists.

Lecture

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Jupyter Notebook

Please use the Jupyter notebook named "04StoringMultipleValuesInLists.ipynb" for this lesson. If you haven't downloaded them already, you may find them here.

Key Points

• Use [value1, value2, value3, ...] creates a list.
• Lists can contain any Python object, including lists (i.e., list of lists).
• Lists are indexed and sliced with square brackets (e.g., list[0] and list[2:9]), in the same way as strings and arrays.
• Lists are mutable (i.e., their values can be changed in place).
• Strings are immutable (i.e., the characters in them cannot be changed).