Python List

Introduction

In this article, you will learn about Python list, which is a data type. Every programming language supports the basic data structure as a sequence and to store the data in a sequence or to store the co-related data as a sequence.

Python supports six built-in sequences but most common are list and tuple.

Python also has built in functions for the manipulation and to perform an operation on the list.

Python list

List is versatile data type of Python. List can support any data type element in the same list. Python list element is separated by comma(,).

Syntax of list

List_name=[list_element]

Example

   list1=[“c#corner”,1998]

Accessing value from the list

To access an individual value, list must use square brackets with an index for slicing an individual value.

Example
  1. list1["ajay malik",22,9990600495] #list with the name number and ph number 
  2. print("name= ",list1[0]) #prints first element form list  
  3. print("age=",list1[1]) #prints second element form list  
  4. print("ph number",list1[2]) #prints third element form list  
Output



Updating list in Python

In Python programming language, we can update the list, using index of the list to update the single element of the list or multiple elements of the list.

Example
  1. list1=["ajay malik",22,9990600495] #list with the name number and ph number  
  2. print("name= ",list1[0]) #prints first element form list  
  3. print("age=",list1[1]) #prints second element fot list  
  4. print("ph number",list1[2]) #prints third element from list#updating ph number in list  
  5. list1[2]=9999999999#print updated list  
  6. print("\nupdated list",list1)  
Output



Deleting list element

Python has del function, which is used to delete an individual element or whole list.

Example
  1. list1["ajay malik",22,9990600495] #list with the name number and ph number  
  2. print("name= ",list1[0]) #prints first element form list  
  3. print("age=",list1[1]) #prints second element fot list  
  4. print("ph number",list1[2]) #prints third element from list #deleting age from list  
  5. del list1[1] #print list after delete element  
  6. print("\nafter deleting list is :",list1)  
Output

 

List operations

Python list is almost similar to string but the list is slightly different. Most common operations are listed below.

list1=[1,2,3] and list2[4,5,6]

Operation Expression   Result 
Membership   3 in list1 True 
Length len(list1)  3 
+(concatenation)  List1+list2  [1,2,3,4,5,6] 
Iteration 
For item in list1:
      print(item)
 		 123

Indexing, slicing and matrixes 

Indexing, slicing and matrixes works similar to the string.

list1=[‘hello’,’Hello’,’HELLO’]

 Expression Result   Description 
 list1[1] Hello  Item at index 1 start from 0 
 list[-1] Hello   Count from right
 list1[1:] [‘Hello’,’HELLO’]   Start from 1 to end

Built-in list function are given below,

1) len(list1)

It counts the length of list and returns the number of element in the list.

Syntax len(list)
Return value

It returns a number or length of the list.

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3]  
  2. list2=[4,5,6]  
  3. n=len(list1)  
  4. print("lenth of list1 is :",n)  
Output


2) max(list)

It finds the maximum value in the list and returns the maximum value.

Syntax

max(list)

return value

It returns the maximum value from the list.

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]#return maximum  
  2. m=max(list1)#print max element  
  3. print("mazimum element:",m)  
Output



3) min(list)

It finds the minimum value element and returns minimum value element.

Syntax
           min(list)

return value

      It returns the minimum value element.

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]#return minimum  
  2. m=min(list1)#print min element  
  3. print("minimum element:",m)  
Output



4) list(seq)

     This method converts a sequence into the list.

Syntax
   
       list(seq)

Example
  1. seq=(1,2,3,4)#convert tuple in list.  
  2. list1=list(seq)#print list  
  3. print("list is:",list1)  
Output


Python list method

list.append(obj)

It adds obj to the list (add value at the last of list). Only single value appends

Syntax

List.append(obj)

Return

This method can’t return any value.

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]  
  2. print("list before append:",list1)#append list  
  3. list1.append(10)  
  4. print("list after append:",list1)  
Output



list.count(obj)

It counts any obj in the list and returns how many times, an obj is occurred in the list.

Syntax

list.count(obj)

return It returns number of how many times obj occurred in the list.

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6,6,6]  
  2. n=list1.count(6)  
  3. print("n=",n)  
Output



List.extend(seq)

Append seq to list

Syntax

List.extend(seq)

Return This method cant return any value.

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]  
  2. seq=(7,8,9)  
  3. print("list before extent:",list1) #append sequence in to list  
  4. list1.extend(seq)  
  5. print("list after extent:",list1)  
Output



List.index(obj)

Returns index value of an obj in the list.

Syntax

list.index(obj)

Return value

Number or index value

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]  
  2. print("index of 5 is:",list1.index(5))  
Output



list.insert(index,obj)

Insert object at given index in the list.

Syntax

list.insert(index,obj)

Return

no return value

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]  
  2. print("list before insertion:",list1)#insertion  
  3. list1.insert(4,10)  
  4. print("list after insertion:",list1)  
Output



list.pop(obj=list[-1])

It removes the last element and return that element.

Syntax

list.pop()

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]  
  2. print("pop element:",list1.pop())  
  3. print("again pop:",list1.pop())  
Output



list.remove()

It removes object from the list.

Syntax

List.remove(obj)

Return no return value.

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]  
  2. print("list before remove element",list1)#remove element from list  
  3. list1.remove(4)  
  4. print("list after remove element",list1)  
Output
 


list.reverse()

It reverses all the elements in the list

Syntax

list.reverse()

return no return value

Example
  1. list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6]  
  2. print("list before reverse element",list1) #reverse function  
  3. list1.reverse()  
  4. print("list after reverse",list1)  
Output


list.sort()

This function is used to sort the list element.
 
Syntax

List.sort()

Example
  1. list1=[6,1,5,3,7,8,4]  
  2. print("list before sort:",list1) #sort list  
  3. list1.sort()  
  4. print("list after sort:",list1)  
Output


Summary

In this chapter, you learnt some concepts of Python list like how to create a list , accessing list element, insertion of element into list ,deleting element and you also friendly with predefined function.