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This document provides an introduction to lists and strings in Python, explaining their features, operations, and methods. It covers how to create lists, perform operations on them, and access elements, as well as the similarities and differences between lists and strings. The document also includes examples and homework assignments related to manipulating lists.

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Python_lists slides

This document provides an introduction to lists and strings in Python, explaining their features, operations, and methods. It covers how to create lists, perform operations on them, and access elements, as well as the similarities and differences between lists and strings. The document also includes examples and homework assignments related to manipulating lists.

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Introduction to python

listss and stringss

Mauricio Sevilla
email= [email protected]

09.04.19
We have already started with some of the most basic ideas behind the list s,

Today we are going to focous on the features, advantages and disadvantages of working
with list s.
lists
On python , a list is a set of things, of any kind!, and even each compound can have a
different type than the others, you can have,

lists
strings
Numbers: int or
float
objects
pointers
...
The only thing we have to consider is to make it inside of [] , let see some examples

In [1]: list1=[]
print(list1)
type(list1)

[]

Out[1]: list

An empty list , and

In [2]: list2=[10]
print(list2,type(list2),type(list2[0]))

[10] <class 'list'> <class 'int'>


Operations such as + , * can be performed, but the result is not what one would expect,

In [3]: list1=[1,2,3,4,5]
list2=[3,2,4,6,9]
print(list1+list2)

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 2, 4, 6, 9]

This operation cannot be performed with an number and a list

In [4]: print(list1+2)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-f7df2789d0eb> in <module>
----> 1 print(list1+2)

TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "int") to list


We have to take into account that, not all operations are allowed between certain types

In [ ]: print(list1*list2)
Sometimes they work with speci c types,

In [ ]: print(list1*2)
Finally

In [ ]: print(list1**2)

So, we have to explore which operators can be used on which variables.


Lets create a list with different kind of data, an int , float , character, str and a list

In [ ]: list_test=[1,2.0,'c',"word",['list_a','list_b']]

Let us explore the data.


In [ ]: for i in list_test:
print(type(i))

look that 'c' and "word" are of the same type.

In [ ]: print(list_test)
Let us explore some of the functions we can use on list s

len()

In [ ]: print(len(list_test))
In [ ]: print(len(list_test[0]))

Note : Doesn't work on numbers, but on strings?

In [ ]: print(len(list_test[3]), list_test[3])

In some sense, the str and list have the same structure!
Di erences on for
In [ ]: for i in list_test:
print(i)

In [ ]: for i in range(len(list_test)):
print(i, list_test[i])
enumerate function
In [ ]: for i,j in enumerate(list_test):
print(i,j)
list s also can be accesed with negative values!

In [ ]: print(list_test[-1])

Sometimes, you can have more than one index

In [ ]: print(list_test[-1][1][-1])
append method,
there are different ways to use functions on structures as lists , for example len() , or
range() , but there are some such as append that are called Methods, they are the heart
of python because is a language based on Object Oriented Programming

In [ ]: print(list_test)

In [ ]: list_test.append(1)

In [ ]: print(list_test)
In [ ]: list_test.append([1,2,3,4,5])

In [ ]: print(list_test)
Homework

Look for some methods to erase cells on a list


You can change the elements of a list, even if the new value have a different type.

In [ ]: list_test[6]=2

In [ ]: print(list_test)
There are other things we can do on list s, for example, how can we get more than one
value of a list at a time?

In [ ]: print(list_test[1:4])

In [ ]: print(list_test[3][2:])

When we use [2:] it means that it starts at [2] and goes until the end. we can also use
[:3] and it means that goes from the begining until the 2nd compound.
Strings
A string is a set of characters,

In [ ]: test1='test'
test2="test"

In [ ]: print(test1==test2)

There is no difference between ' , " .


And we can use the same structure than we just did with the list s!

In [ ]: len(test1)

In [ ]: print(test1[1],test2[3])
In [ ]: test1.append('a')

In [ ]: test1=test1+'\t'+'test2'

In [ ]: print(test1)
Strings can be multiplyed

In [ ]: print(test2*2,type(test2*2))

How can this be useful?

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