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| 1 | +########## INSERT INTO MIDDLE OF LIST ########## |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +#Lists are ordered, and this order may matter to you. |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +work_days = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"] |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +#OVERTIME! |
| 9 | +work_days.insert(3, "Wednesday") #index, "data" |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +print(work_days) |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +#What if we want to do the opposite and take a day out? |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +########## REMOVE ELEMENT FROM LIST BY INDEX ########## |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +#We learned how to remove by value: |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +work_days = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"] |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +#VACATION DAY! |
| 24 | +work_days.remove("Saturday") |
| 25 | +print(work_days) |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +#However, removing by index is also useful: |
| 28 | +work_days = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"] |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +del work_days[0] |
| 31 | +print(work_days) |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +########## REMOVE ELEMENT WITH POP ########## |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +#The benefit here is the method returns the element |
| 38 | +work_days = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"] |
| 39 | +popped = work_days.pop(1) |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +print("You removed " + popped) |
| 42 | +print(work_days) |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +########## REMOVE ELEMENT FROM LIST USING DEL AND SLICE ########## |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +work_days = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"] |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +del work_days[0:2] #remove first 2 |
| 51 | +print(work_days) |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +del work_days[-2:] #remove last 2 (start 2 from right and go to end) |
| 54 | +print(work_days) |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +########## REMOVING ALL OCCURANCES IN LIST ########## |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +backpack = ["pizza slice", "button", "pizza slice", "fishing pole", |
| 60 | +"pizza slice", "nunchicks", "pizza slice", "sandwich from mcdonalds"] |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +backpack.remove("pizza slice") |
| 63 | +print(backpack) #SO MUCH PIZZA! |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +while(backpack.count("pizza slice") > 0): |
| 66 | + backpack.remove("pizza slice") |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +print(backpack) |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +#This may not be the most optimized solution as each removal requires |
| 71 | +#an iteration from backpack.count. But it's cleanest |
| 72 | +#You should also avoid modifying a list while iterating, so a for-in loop is bad |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +#for item in backpack: |
| 75 | +# if(item == "pizza slice"): |
| 76 | +# backpack.remove(item) |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +#The original solution is fine for removing data from reasonably sized lists |
| 79 | +#for very very large lists, look into list comprehension |
| 80 | +#Which we are not getting into quite yet. |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +########## REVERSE LIST ########## |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +backpack = ["pizza slice", "button", "pizza slice", "fishing pole", |
| 87 | +"pizza slice", "nunchicks", "pizza slice", "sandwich from mcdonalds"] |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +print(backpack) |
| 90 | +backpack.reverse() |
| 91 | +print(backpack) |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | + |
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