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The City School 2021-2022

Delete Elements in List

Del command is used to delete a list element as mentioned in the example below:

Sample code:

# This defines a list called newList
newList=[10,20,30,”Samsung”]

# Deletes the element at the index 1
del newList[1]

# Prints the list after deleting an item
print(newList)

Output: Programming Robots & Single-Board Computers

[10, 30, ‘Samsung’]

Add Elements in List

To add an item to the end of the list, use the append() method. The code below
demonstrates this:

Sample code:

# This defines a list called thisList
thisList=[”apple”,”banana”,”cherry”]

# adds a new element at the end of the list
thisList.append(“orange“)

# Prints the list after deleting an item
print(thisList)

Output:
[‘apple’,‘banana’,‘cherry’,‘orange’]

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