32 Working with List: Sorting and other operations
After reading this lesson, you will be able to
- Sort a list
- Produce a string representation of a sequence
- Sum all the numerical elements of a list
- Group items according to given criteria
In the previous lesson, you mastered how to filter elements of a sequence. In this lesson, you’ll learn about a variety of operations you can perform on lists. You’ll discover different approaches to sorting the items of a sequence. Also, you’ll learn how to produce a text representation for it. Finally, you’ll see how to restructure your list into a dictionary-like structure that groups elements with common features. In the capstone, you’ll use these operations to rank the films in the movies data set and ...
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