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Python Short Notes: Chapter 2: Variables and Simple Data Types

The document summarizes key concepts about working with lists in Python. It discusses how to access elements in a list, modify elements, add and remove elements, sort lists, find the length of lists, and use for loops to iterate through lists. Some key points include accessing elements using indexes, changing values by assigning to the index, adding to the end using append or to a specific index using insert, and removing using del, pop, or remove.

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Python Short Notes: Chapter 2: Variables and Simple Data Types

The document summarizes key concepts about working with lists in Python. It discusses how to access elements in a list, modify elements, add and remove elements, sort lists, find the length of lists, and use for loops to iterate through lists. Some key points include accessing elements using indexes, changing values by assigning to the index, adding to the end using append or to a specific index using insert, and removing using del, pop, or remove.

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PYTHON SHORT NOTES

Chapter 2: Variables and Simple Data Types

 Print(name.title()) converts first letter to capital


 Print(name.upper()) to full caps and similarly name.lower()
 \t prints after a few spaces
 print("Languages:\nPython\nC\nJavaScript")
Languages:
Python
C
JavaScript
 you can combine \n and \t as well.
print(“Hello\n\tWorld)
 To remove blank space at right end use “rstrip()”
Ex favourite_language=”Python “
print(favourite_language.rstrip()_
 Similarly use lstrip() and also to strip from both sides simultaneously use
simply ‘strip()’

Chapter 3 : Introducing Lists

bicycles = ['trek', 'cannondale', 'redline', 'specialized']

 Accessing an Element in a list print(bicylces[0])


 Use [-1] to access the last element
 Changing/modifying an element from list

For example, let’s say we have a list of motorcycles, and the first item in the list is 'honda'.

How would we change the value of this first item?

motorcycles = ['honda', 'yamaha', 'suzuki']

motorcycles[0] = ‘ducati’

 Adding an Element to the end : motorcyles.append(‘ducati’)


 Adding an Element to a specific place motorcycles.insert(0, 'ducati')
 Deleting: del motorcycles[0]
 Pop an element. See this code
 first_owned = motorcycles.pop(0) : to pop any specific one
 If you’re unsure whether to use the del statement or the pop() method, here’s a simple way
to decide: when you want to delete an item from a list and not use that item in any way, use
the del statement; if you want to use an item as you remove it, use the pop() method.
 To remove something, but don’t know it’s positional value, then use
motorcycles.remove('ducati') #removes ducati from the list
 The remove() method deletes only the first occurrence of the value you specify. If there’s a
possibility the value appears more than once in the list, you’ll need to use a loop to
determine if all occurrences of the value have been removed. You’ll learn in chapter 7 to
loop
 Sort elements in a list alphabetically : cars.sort()
cars.sort(reverse=True) # to sort it in reverse alphabetic order
This is permenant, you cannot revert back. So how to revert? See this code

 To reverse a list order use: cars.reverse() # simply reverses the order


 Len(cars) # to find the length of a list

Working With Lists – 4

Say we have a list of magicians, Magicians = [‘alice’ , ‘david’ , ‘carolina’ ]

 For magician in Magicians print magician


#for magician in Magicians, the python retrieves the first value from Magicians and store
it in magician as per the code

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