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Lecture 6

The document outlines various data structures in Python, including lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries, highlighting their characteristics and functionalities. It details methods associated with lists, such as append, insert, pop, and others, which manipulate list elements. Additionally, it explains operations like membership testing, string manipulation, and conversion to lists.

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Lecture 6

The document outlines various data structures in Python, including lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries, highlighting their characteristics and functionalities. It details methods associated with lists, such as append, insert, pop, and others, which manipulate list elements. Additionally, it explains operations like membership testing, string manipulation, and conversion to lists.

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❑ List – a collection that is ordered and changeable. Allows duplicate
members.
❑Tuple – a collection that is ordered and unchangeable. Allows
duplicate members.
❑Set – a collection that is unordered and unindexed.
❑Dictionary – a collection that is unordered, changeable, and indexed
- similar to arrays
- can contain any type of variable
- can contain as many variables as you wish
- can also be iterated
- a sequential collection of Python data values, where each value is
identified by an index
- values that make up a list are called its elements
- item in a list can be changed by accessing it directly as part of the
assignment statement
Enclose the elements in square brackets [ ]
numbers = [10, 20, 30, 40]
colors = [“red", “blue", “yellow"]
1. append() - is a list method that adds an element at the end of the list
2. insert() Inserts a new item at the position given
3. pop() Removes an element at the specified position and returns the
removed item
4. sort() Modifies a list to be sorted
5. reverse() Modifies a list to be in reverse order
6. remove() Removes an item with the specified value
7. clear() removes all the elements from the list
8. copy() returns a copy of the list
8. count() returns the number of elements with the specified value
9. extend() add the elements of a list to the end of the current list
10. index() returns the index of the first element with the specified value
11. len() returns the length of a list
12. max() returns largest element
13. min() returns the smallest element
14. sum() returns sum in the list
15. del statement removes an element from a list by using its position
16. in and not in are boolean operators that test membership in a sequence
17. split() method breaks a string into a list of words. By default, any number
of whitespace characters is considered a word boundary
18.join() method joins the list with the glue between each of the elements.
19. Glue - a separator string
20. list() turns value into a list

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