Skip to Content
Learn Enough Python to Be Dangerous: Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python
book

Learn Enough Python to Be Dangerous: Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python

by Michael Hartl
July 2023
Beginner to intermediate
448 pages
10h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Learn Enough Python to Be Dangerous: Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python

Chapter 3

Lists

In Chapter 2, we saw that strings can be thought of as sequences of characters in a particular order. In this chapter, we’ll learn about the list data type, which is the general Python container for a list of arbitrary elements in a particular order. Python lists are similar to the array data type in other languages (such as JavaScript and Ruby), so programmers familiar with other languages can probably guess a lot about how Python lists behave. (Although Python does have a built-in array type, in this tutorial “array” always refers to the ndarray data type defined by the NumPy library, which is covered in Section 11.2.)

We’ll start by explicitly connecting strings and lists via the split() method (Section 3.1), and then learn ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Learn Enough Python to be Dangerous: A Tutorial Introduction to Programming with Python

Learn Enough Python to be Dangerous: A Tutorial Introduction to Programming with Python

Michael Hartl
The Complete Python Course

The Complete Python Course

Jose Salvatierra Fuentes, Codestars By Rob Percival

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780138051143