List is a collection which is ordered and changeable. Allows duplicate members.
- Written with square brackets []
- can access the list items by referring to the index number [0,1,2, etc]
- use len() to find out how many elements are in the list
- use listname.append() to add new values
- use listname.insert(index, “value”) to insert a new item in a specific position
- use listname.remove(“value”) to remove a specified value
- use listname.pop(index) to remove a value from specific index position ; if not specified, it takes the last value
- use listname.clear() to empty the list
- use listname.sort() to sort the list
Tuple is a collection which is ordered and unchangeable. Allows duplicate members.
- written with round brackets ()
- can access tuple items with index numbers
- use len() to find out how many elements are in the tuple
- use del tuplename if you want to delete the tuple completely, but cannot be modified like the list above
Set is a collection which is unordered and unindexed. No duplicate members.
- written with curly brackets {}
- cannot change items but can add new items within the set
- use setname.add() to add one additional item to the set
- use setname.update() to add multiple items within the set
- use setname.remove(“value”) to remove a value / outputs an error if the value is not within the set
- setname.discard(“value”) also removes but does not give an error if the value is not in the set
- use setname.clear() to empty the set
- use del setname to delete it completely
Dictionary is a collection which is unordered, changeable and indexed. No duplicate members.
- written with curly brackets {} with key and value
- use dictname.value(key) to get value associated with the keyuse for x in thisdict.values(): // print(x) to see all values in the dictionary
- use for x, y in thisdict.items():
- print(x, y) to loop through all keys and values
- use dictname.add[“key”] = “value” to add new k & v
- use dictnaame.pop(“key”) to remove both k & v
- use dictname.popitem() to remove the last k & v
- use del dictname[“key”] to remove both k & v
- use del dictname to completely delete
- use dictname.clear() to empty
upbeat dabbler 