PYTHON

LECTURE 26
 Today’s Agenda

• List -II

• Modifying A List
• Deletion In A List
• Appending / Prepending Items In A List
• Multiplyng A List
• Membership Operators On List
 Modifying A List

 Python allows us to edit/change/modify an element in

a list by simply using it’s index and assigning a new value
to it
Syntax:
list_var[index_no]=new_value
Example
sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
print(sports)
sports[1]="badminton"
print(sports)
Output
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
print(sports)
sports[3]="badminton"
print(sports)

Output:
 Modifying Multiple Values

 Python allows us to modify multiple continuous list

values in a single statement , which is done using the
regular slice operator.
Syntax:
list_var[m:n]=[list of new value ]
Example:
sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:3]=["badminton","tennis"]
print(sports)
Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:3]=["badminton","tennis","rugby","table
tennis"]
The number of elements
print(sports) inserted need not be equal to
the number replaced. Python
Output: just grows or shrinks the list
as needed.
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:2]=["badminton","tennis","rugby","table
tennis"]
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:1]=["badminton","tennis"]
print(sports) If we have end index same or less
than start index , then Python
doesn’t remove anything . Rather it
simply inserts new elements at the
given index and shifts the existing
Output: element
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:0]=["badminton","tennis"]
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:-1]=["badminton","tennis"]
print(sports)
Since -1 is present in the list ,
Python removed items from 1 to
second last item of the list and
inserted new items there
Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:-2]=["badminton","tennis"]
print(sports)

Output:
 Deleting Item From The List

 Python allows us to delete an item from the list by calling

the operator/keyword called del
Syntax:
del list_var[index_no]

Example:
sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
del sports[3]
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
del sports[4]
print(sports)
Subscript operator will generate
IndexError whenever we pass
invalid index
Output:
 Deleting Multiple Items

 Python allows us to delete multiple items from the list in

2 ways:

 By assigning empty list to the appropriate slice

OR

 By passing slice to the del operator

 Example

 Assigning Empty List

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:3]=[]
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
sports[1:5]=[]
print(sports)
Slice operator never generates
IndexError , so the code will work
fine and remove all the items from
given start index to the end of the
list
Output:
 Example

 Passing slice to del operator

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
del sports[1:3]
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
del sports[1:5]
print(sports)
Here also , since we have used the
slice operator , no exception will
Output: arise
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
del sports[0:4]
print(sports)

Output:
 Deleting Entire List

 We can delete or remove the entire list object as well as

it’s reference from the memory by passing the list object
reference to the del operator
Syntax:
del list_var
Example:
sports=["cricket","hockey","football","snooker"]
print(sports)
del sports
print(sports)
Output:
 Appending Or Prepending
Items To A List

 Additional items can be added to the start or end of a list using

the + concatenation operator or the += compound assignment
operator

 The only condition is that the item to be concatenated must be a list

Example:
outdoor=["cricket","hockey","football"]
indoor=["carrom","chess","table-tennis"]
allsports=outdoor+indoor
print(allsports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
sports=["carrom","chess","table-tennis"]+sports
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

evens=[4,6,8]
evens=2+evens
print(evens)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

evens=[4,6,8]
evens=list(2)+evens
print(evens)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

evens=[4,6,8]
evens=[2]+evens
print(evens)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
sports=sports+"boxing"
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
sports=sports+list("boxing")
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
sports=sports+["boxing"]
print(sports)

Output:
 Multiplying A List

 Python allows us to multiply a list by an integer and

when we do so it makes copies of list items that many
number of times, while preserving the order.
 Syntax:
list_var * n
Example:
sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
sports=sports*3
print(sports)
Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
sports=sports*3.0
print(sports)

Output:
 Guess The Output ?

sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
sports=sports*["boxing"]
print(sports)

Output:
 Membership Operator On List

 We can apply membership operators in and not in on

the list to search for a particular item
Syntax:
element in list_var

Example:
sports=["cricket","hockey","football"]
print("cricket" in sports)

Output:
 Exercise

 Write a program to accept 5 unique integers from

the user. Make sure if the integer being entered is
already present in the list your code displays the
message “Item already present” and ask the user to
reenter the integer.
Output:
 Solution

myints=[]
print("Enter 5 unique integers:")
i=0
while i<=4:
item=int(input("Enter element:"))
found=False
for x in myints:
if x==item:
print("Item already present")
found=True
break;
if found==False:
myints.append(item)
i=i+1
print("integers inputted by you are:")
for x in myints:
print(x)
 Exercise

 Write a program to accept 2 lists from the user of 5

nos each . Assume each list will have unique nos
Now find out how many items in these lists are
common .
Output:
 Solution

list1=[]
list2=[]
print("Enter 5 unique nos for first list:")
for i in range(1,6):
item=int(input("Enter element:"))
list1.append(item)
print("Enter 5 unique nos for second list:")
for i in range(1,6):
item=int(input("Enter element:"))
list2.append(item)
count=0
for x in list1:
for y in list2:
if x==y:
count=count+1
if(count==0):
print("These lists have no common items")
else:
print("These lists have",count," items common")
 Exercise

 Rewrite the previous code so that your code alos

displays the items which are common in both the
lists

Output:
 Solution

list1=[]
list2=[]
list3=[]
print("Enter 5 unique nos for first list:")
for i in range(1,6):
item=int(input("Enter element:"))
list1.append(item)
print("Enter 5 unique nos for second list:")
for i in range(1,6):
item=int(input("Enter element:"))
list2.append(item)

for x in list1:
for y in list2:
if x==y:
list3.append(x)

if(len(list3)==0):
print("These lists have no common items")
else:
print("These lists have",len(list3)," items common")
print("These items are:",list3)