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Lists and Strings

Lists and Strings. George Mason University. Today’s topics. Review of Chapter 5 : Lists and Strings Go over examples and questions lists and strings in Python. List (and strings) review. How do we declare a list? An empty list? What operations can we apply to lists?

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Lists and Strings

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  1. Lists and Strings George Mason University

  2. Today’s topics • Review of Chapter 5: Lists and Strings • Go over examples and questions • lists and strings in Python

  3. List (and strings) review • How do we declare a list? An empty list? • What operations can we apply to lists? • How are lists represented in memory? • primitive types • complex types • What happens when we assign a variable to a list? (in memory) • What is a character? • How is a string similar to a list? Different? • What is the substring operation?

  4. Let’s go over the exercises

  5. Lists in python • .append( )is a way to add a single element to the end of a list

  6. length in python • len( ) is a function to return the length of a list or string

  7. python memory visualizer • let’s use the python memory visualizer to trace through an example: http://pythontutor.com/visualize.html#code=x+%3D+1%0Asmall+%3D+%5Bx,+2,+3%5D%0Amedium+%3D+%5B43,+76,+180,+57%5D%0Alarge+%3D+%5B234%5D%0AbigList+%3D+%5Bmedium,+small,+large%5D%0Aprint+small%0Aprint+bigList%0Asmall%5B0%5D+%3D+-1%0Aprint+small%0Aprint+bigList%0Ax+%3D+7%0Aprint+small&mode=display&cumulative=false&heapPrimitives=false&drawParentPointers=false&textReferences=false&showOnlyOutputs=false&py=2&rawInputLstJSON=%5B%5D&curInstr=0 Note the difference between the storage of x, a primitive, and the lists.

  8. Debugging with id( ) • id( ) can be used to print out the memory address of a complex type • str( ) is needed to add non-strings to strings

  9. Debugging with id( )

  10. index( ) • Note you’ll need to check if the element is in the list or string before trying to get its index

  11. in • in is a keyword and can be used to check if the element is in the list or string before trying to get its index

  12. substrings and sub-lists with [:]

  13. newlines and tabs

  14. Other useful functions • min(list) • max(list) • list.remove(1.5) • sortedList = sorted(list)

  15. Strings in Python • ‘cat’ and “cat” are the same • can use single or double quote • default is single quote • useful for “’” versus ‘”’

  16. Questions?

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