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Common List Operations

Explore common Python list operations including adding and removing elements, slicing sublists, finding element positions, and sorting lists. This lesson helps you manipulate and manage list data efficiently with practical methods like append, insert, pop, remove, and sort.

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Adding elements

All the elements of a list cannot always be specified beforehand and there’s a strong possibility that we’ll want to add more elements during runtime.

The append() method can be used to add a new element at the end of a list. The following template must be followed:

a_list.append(newElement)

Here’s an example:

Python 3.10.4
num_list = []  # Empty list
num_list.append(1)
num_list.append(2)
num_list.append(3)
print(num_list)

Note: In the code above, we create an empty list at line 1. This can always ...