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The document discusses various constructors, methods, functions and operators related to lists in Python. It describes how to initialize lists, add and remove elements, sort lists, get information from lists, and more.

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Python List

The document discusses various constructors, methods, functions and operators related to lists in Python. It describes how to initialize lists, add and remove elements, sort lists, get information from lists, and more.

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Louis Basson
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Constructors

list()
Converts an object into a list.
[] list comprehensions
Returns a list based on existing iterables.
literal syntax
Initializes a new instance of the list type.

Methods
Adding Elements
insert
Inserts an item at a given position.
append
Adds an item to the end of the list.
extend
Extends the list by appending all the items from the iterable.

Deleting

remove
Removes the first item from the list which matches the specified value.
pop
Removes and returns the item at the specified index.

Information
index
Returns the index of the first occurrence of the specified list item.
count
Returns the number of times the specified item appears in the list.

Modifying
sort
Sorts the list in place.
reverse
Reverses the elements of the list, in place.

Functions
len
Returns an int type specifying number of elements in the collection.
min
Returns the smallest item from a collection.
Returns the largest item in an iterable or the largest of two or more arguments.
cmp
Compares two objects and returns an integer according to the outcome.
sum
Returns a total of the items contained in the iterable object.
sorted
Returns a sorted list from the iterable.
reversed
Returns a reverse iterator over a sequence.
all
Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the collection contains only values that evaluate t
True.
any
Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the collection contains any values that evaluate t
True.
enumerate
Returns an enumerate object.
zip
Returns a list of tuples, where the i-th tuple contains the i-th element from each of the argument
sequences or iterables.
Operators
[] (index operator)
Gives access to a sequence’s element.
[::] (slicing)
Gives access to a specified range of sequence’s elements.
+ (concatenation)
Returns a concatenation of two sequences.
* (multiple concatenation)
Returns a sequence self-concatenated specified amount of times.

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