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List Methods

List Methods For Adding and Removing Elements


● Although you can add and remove elements with slice notation, list methods
provide a more natural and readable way to mutate a list.
1) list.insert()
● The list.insert() method is used to insert a single new value into a list.
● It takes two parameters, an index i and a value x, and inserts the value x at
index i in the list.
● If the value for the index parameter of .insert() is larger than the greatest
index in the list, the value is inserted at the end of the list:

● Here the value "violet" is actually inserted at index 5, even though .insert()
was called with 10 for the index.
● You can also use negative indices with .insert():

● This inserts "indigo" into the slot at index -1 which is the last element of the
list. The value "violet" is shifted to the right by one slot.
Note:
● When you .insert() an item into a list, you do not need to assign the result to
the original list.
● For example, the following code actually erases the colors list:

● .insert() is said to alter colors in place. This is true for all list methods that do
not return a value.
2.list.pop()
● The list.pop() method takes one parameter, an index i, and removes the value
from the list at that index. The value that is removed is returned by the
method:
● Python raises an IndexError if you pass to .pop() an argument larger than the
last index:

● Negative indices also work with .pop():


If you do not pass a value to .pop(), it removes the last item in the list:
3. list.append()
The list.append() method is used to append an new element to the end of a list:

After calling .append(), the length of the list increases by one and the value
"indigo" is inserted into the final slot.
4. list.extend()
The list.extend() method is used to add several new elements to the end of a list:

The argument passed to .extend() is another list, but it could also be a tuple. For
example, the above example could be written as follows:
remove(<obj>)
● remove(<obj>) removes object <obj> from list a.
● If <obj> isn’t in a, an exception is raised:
Lists of Numbers: built-in functions
● Python has a couple of useful built-in functions for working with lists of
numbers.
● One very common operation with lists of numbers is to add up all the values
to get the total. You can do this with a for loop:
● The built-in sum() function takes a list as an argument and returns the total of
all the values in the list.

● Besides sum(), there are two other useful built-in functions for working with
lists of numbers: min() and max().

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