Essential Python 3 code for lists

Python 3 examples for all of the things I listed in my previous article.

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There are variations on much of this syntax, but so long as you know one way, you’ll be fine. I tried to find the Pythonic way in most cases. You can use this as a cheat sheet.

Basics

# Create a list mylist = []

# Add an element to the front or back mylist.append( "abc" )
mylist.insert( 0, "def" )

# Pop element off front or back end = mylist.pop()
start = mylist.pop( 0 )

# Forward iterate over elements for item in mylist:
    print( item )

# Get the length of list len( mylist )

# Test if empty if not mylist:
    print( "list is empty" )

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Location Based Operations

# Get item at location mylist[2]

# Insert an item at location mylist.insert( 3, "abc" ) 

# Remove an item from location del mylist[2]

# Replace/Assign item at location mylist[1] = "def"

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Sorting and searching

# Find an item if item in mylist:
    index = mylist.index(item)

# Using `index` and error handling try:
    index = mylist.index( 'abc' )
except ValueError:
    index = None

# Using `next` and filtering next((x for x in mylist if x == 'ghif'), None)


# Find and remove an item if item in mylist:
    mylist.remove( item )

# with error handling try:
    mylist.remove( item )
except ValueError:
    pass


# Find last matching item # Index of found item, or None next( (index for index in reversed( range( len( mylist ) ) ) if mylist[index] == item), None)

# Alternately, reverse list and use "Find an item", but that copies the list revlist = mylist[::-1]
if item in revlist:
    index = revlist.index( item )


# Sort by natural order # in-place sort mylist.sort()

# Sort with custom comparator mylist = [ ('a', 10), ('b', 7), ('c',13), ('d',1) ]
# sort by a key (sub-element mylist.sort( key = lambda item: item[1] )
# custom comparator def compare_fn( a, b ):
    return some_cond( a, b )
mylist.sort( key = functools.cmp_to_key( compare_fn ) )

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Segment Manipulation

# Split the list at arbitrary location tail_of_list = mylist[2:]
head_of_list = mylist[:2]

# Multiple splits based on a match mylist = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'b', 'e']
[list(y) for x, y in itertools.groupby( mylist, lambda z: z == 'b') if not x]

# Clear the list mylist.clear()

# Remove segment # delete from position 1 up to, but excluding position 3 del mylist[1:3]

# Concatenate lists mylist + other_list

# Insert list at location # list slicing replaces the segment of list with another one, here we replace a zero-length slice mylist[1:1] = other_list

# Get a sublist # sublist starting at position 1 up to, but excluding, position 3 mylist[1:3]

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More Iteration

# Backward for item in reversed( mylist ):
    print( item )

# Partial segment iteration # using itertools.islice avoids copying the list (which is what would happen if you used a slice) for item in itertools.islice( mylist, 1, 4 ):
    print( item )

# Skipping elements # step from element 1 to 6 (exclusive) by 2 for item in itertools.islice( mylist, 1, 6, 2 ):
    print( item )

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Creation

# Create from a static list of items mylist = [ 'abc', 'def', 'ghi']

# Create a range of numbers # a list of numbers from 10..20 (exclusive) numbers = list( range( 10, 20 ) )

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Data Manipulation

# Mapping [number * 10 for number in numbers]

# Filtering [number for number in numbers if number % 2 == 0]

# Fold / Reduce # Summing up numbers using builtin add functools.reduce( operator.add, numbers )
# Joining string representations of items functools.reduce( lambda left,right: str( left ) + '/' + str( right ), mylist )

# Zip # the zip function produces a list of tuples zip( lista, listb )
# to alternate items into one list use reduce functools.reduce( operator.add, zip( lista, listb ) )

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Advanced

# Swap elements at two locations mylist[3], mylist[5] = mylist[5], mylist[3]

# Reserve capacity # Python lists do not expose capacity 
# Replace content in a list mylist[:] = other_list

# Compare two lists lista == listb

# Search a sorted list # bisect_left/bisect_right work with sorted lists, # find an item ndx using bisect_left, finds the left-most item ndx = bisect_left( numbers, 4 )
if ndx != len(numbers) and numbers[ndx] == 4
    print( "Found at {}".format(ndx) )


# Iterators # Manually stepping through an iterator myiter = iter( mylist )
while True:
    try:
        n = next( myiter )
        print(n)
    except StopIteration:
        break

# Multiple iterators at the same time itera = iter( lista )
iterb = iter( listb )
while True:
    try:
        a = next( itera )
        b = next( iterb )
        print( a, b )
    except StopIteration:
        break

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