Learn Programming in Python with Cody Jackson

Adding list elements

Adding new items to a list is extremely easy. You simply tell the list to add them, as shown in the following screenshot. This also demonstrates how any item can be placed in a list, even disparate data types:

Appending to a list

The append() method simply adds a single item to the end of a list; it's different from concatenation since it takes a single object and not a list. The append() method changes the list in-place and doesn't create a brand new list object, nor does it return the modified list. To view the changes, you have to expressly call the list object again, as shown in line 3. So be aware of that in case ...