List is the most common type of handling data
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#generate list of 0 to 9
my_list = range(10)
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my_list
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As you can see, list is braced by [ ]
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# You can retrive list element
my_list[0]
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List can hold different data types
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# To add something into a list, use append methon
# This methond can only append one element at a time
my_list.append("1")
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my_list
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# You can also store a list in a list
my_list.append(["1",1.2032,0x2f2])
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# when you print the list hexedecimal number will be converted to decimal
my_list
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List Indexing
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# remember index starts with 0
print (my_list[0])
print (my_list[11])
# You can also count backward, and it starts with -1
print (my_list[-1])
List Slicing
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start_position = 0
end_position = 10
my_list[start_position:end_position]
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start_position = 2
end_position = 3
my_list[start_position:end_position]
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start_position = -5
end_position = -1
my_list[start_position:end_position]
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Just pay attention to these 3 examples. When doing list slicing, you are not pointing element, but slicing between elements. That's why my_list[2:3] gives you the second element.