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Objective Questions

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  1. How do you create an empty list?

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    +empty=[]
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  2. What is the most important property of sequence data types like lists?

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    The elements are in order and can be accessed by index numbers.

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  3. Can you have a list inside a list ?

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    Yes,List can contain all the other data types, including list.

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    Example: +list_in_list=[2.3,[2,4,6],'string,'all datatypes can be there']

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  4. What is the index number of the first element in a list?

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    0 +nonempty = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1.234] +nonempty[0]

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  5. How would you access the end of a list without finding its length?

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    Using negative indices. We can the list from the end using negative indices.

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    :: +nonempty = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1.234] +nonempty[-1]

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  6. What is the function to find the length of a list?

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    len

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  7. Delete the last element from list sq=[5,4,3,2,1,0]

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    del(sq[-1])

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  8. How many will you have to use remove function to remove all 6's from the given list sq=[2,5,6,7,6,4,6]?

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    3

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Larger Questions

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1. Add all elemets of seq1=['e','f','g','h'] +to the sequence seq=['a','b','c','d']

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  1. Delete all elements of seq1=[3,5,6] from sequence +seq=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
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