Python - Lists and Tuples

Lists and Tuples - Python module Y104

If you want to work through a whole table of values, you're likely to want to store the values in a variable that can contain more that one value at a time. Python has fundamental data types of lists, tuples and dictionaries, and this module looks at lists and tuples.

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Examples from our training material

cmp.py	Comparing lists
inlist.py	The in operator - is a value in a list
lcopy.py	Copying a list (or rather - copying a reference to a list)
li1.py	List - first example
li2.py	for loop to handle each element of a list
li3.py	Use of range o give list indexes
li4.py	range to go through each element of a list
lister	4 different ways of parsing a list
litu.py	Converting a list to a tuple
m2	Alternative answer to exercise 1
menu.py	A list of lists - works like a 2 D array but better ;-)
months	Answer - excercise 1 - day and month numbers
repeat.py	+ and * operators on a list
revq	Parking exercise - mk 1
revq2	Parking exercise - mark 2
revq3	Parking exercise - final sample answer
sh2.py	Shuffle a list of numbers using supplied shuffle method
shuffle.py	Shuffle a list of numbers
slice.py	list slices
tu1.py	First use of a tuple

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Topics covered in this module

Why do we have collections?.
Lists.
The for loop.
Alternative ways of processing members of a list.
Tuples.
Working with lists and tuples.
More ways to reference elements of a list or tuple.
copying a list.
Concatenating and repeating lists and tuples.
Comparing lists and the in operator.
converting to a list or tuple.
A real live program.
Lists of lists.

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