What is a list in Python

In Python, a list is what we refer to as a collection of items. It is one of the four built-in data types, along with integers, strings, and Boolean values. Lists can be used to store any number of items, and they can be of mixed data types, meaning that a list can contain both integers and strings, for example.

Lists in Python are ordered and changeable, meaning that items in a list can be rearranged and modified. Lists can also contain other lists, making them capable of storing complex data structures.

Here’s an example of a list in Python:

In this example, fruits is a list containing three strings.

To access the elements of a list, you can use their index, which starts from 0. For example, fruits[0] would give you the first element of the list, ‘apple’.

Lists in Python can also be manipulated using various built-in methods and operators. For example, to add an element to the end of a list, you can use the append() method:

This would add ‘orange’ to the end of the fruits list.

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