Tiny Python Projects

3 Going on a picnic: Working with lists

Writing code makes me hungry! Let’s write a program to list some tasty foods we’d like to eat.

So far we’ve worked with single variables, like a name to say “hello” to or a nautical-themed object to point out. In this program, we want to keep track of one or more foods that we will store in a list, a variable that can hold any number of items. We use lists all the time in real life. Maybe it’s your top-five favorite songs, your birthday wish list, or a bucket list of the best types of buckets.

In this chapter, we’re going on a picnic, and we want to print a list of items to bring along. You will learn to

• Write a program that accepts multiple positional arguments

• Use if, elif, and else to handle conditional ...